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The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible (AHLB) dictionary module was uploaded last Saturday (3 November 2012). This book written by Jeff A. Benner is the first Biblical Hebrew lexicon that defines each Hebrew word within its original Ancient Hebrew cultural meaning but indexed via Strong's numbers so it can be used as a supplement to Strong's dictionary.
Because this module required special fonts to display the pictographic Early Semetic script and the modern using non-Unicode codes, Android O.S. that fully supports CSS @font-face feature is needed. So this will not work in Eclair and Honeycomb 3.0/3.1 because of bugs in Android. But this will work in others like Gingerbread, Honeycomb 3.2, ICS and Jellybean.
About AHLB
One of the major differences between the Modern Western mind and the Ancient Hebrew's is that their mind related all words and their meanings to a concrete concept. For instance, the Hebrew word "chai" is normally translated as "life", a western abstract meaning, but the original Hebrew concrete meaning of this word is the "stomach". In the Ancient Hebrew mind, a full stomach is a sign of a full "life". The Hebrew language is a root system oriented language and the lexicon is divided into sections reflecting this root system. Each word of the Hebrew Bible is grouped within its roots and is defined according to its original ancient cultural meaning. Also included in each word entry is its alternative spellings, King James translations of the word and Strong's number.
Book Features
- An introduction to the Ancient Hebrew alphabet, language and thought.
- The history of the Hebrew script from ancient to modern times.
- Reconstruction of the original Hebrew alphabet and root system of roots and words.
- Alphabetical ordering of Parent, Child and Adopted Roots with each root listing the Hebrew nouns and verbs derived from the root.
- Ancient Hebrew, Modern Hebrew and English transliteration of roots and words.
- The action, concrete and abstract meaning of each Hebrew root.
- Ancient Hebrew Cultural definition of Hebrew roots and words.
- Root origins of Hebrew words and their relationship to other roots and words.
- Frequency each word is used in the Hebrew Bible.
- Listing of foreign words found in the Hebrew Bible.
- Index to English translations of Hebrew words, King James Translations of Hebrew words, Strong's numbers and alternate Hebrew spellings of Hebrew words.
Website
The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible has its own website with additional material and information such as verb charts, listing of Biblical Hebrew words in order of their frequency, common Hebrew roots and updates to the lexicon and much more. The author is also available for questions, comments and requests.
Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible website: http://ahlb.ancient-hebrew.org
Downloading
You may download this Dictionary by going to the Download page:
Alternatively, you can also download them directly via MySword running in your Android device. Just go to Menu->More->Download modules. Then select the module type, language (if any), then the modules, and start downloading.
Enjoy reading God's Word!