Strong's Hebrew Dictionary - The Herald

PREFACE
THIS work, although prepared as a companion to the Exhaustive Concordance, to which
it is specially adapted is here paged and printed so that it can be bound separately, in the
belief that a brief and simple Dictionary of the Biblical Hebrew and Chaldee will be
useful to students and others, who do not care at all times to consult a more copious and
elaborate Lexicon; and it will be particularly serviceable to many who are unable to turn
conveniently and rapidly, amid the perplexities and details of foreign characters with
which the pages of Gesenius and Furst bristle, to the fundamental and essential points of
information that they are seeking. Even scholars will find here, not only all of a strictly
verbal character which they most frequently want in ordinary consultation of a lexicon,
but numerous original suggestions, relations, and distinctions, carefully made and clearly
put, which are not unworthy of their attention, especially in the affinities of roots and the
classification of meanings. The compact form and moderate cost of the book, it is hoped,
will facilitate its use with all classes. The vocabulary is complete as to the ground-forms
that actually occur in the biblical text (or Kethib), with the pointing that properly belongs
to them. Their designation by numbers will especially aid those who are not very
familiar with the original language, and the Anglicizing and pronunciation of the words
will not come amiss to multitudes who have some acquaintance with it. The addition of
the renderings in the common version will greatly contribute to fixing and extending the
varied significations and applications of the Hebrew and Chaldee words, as well as to
correcting their occasionally wrong translations. On this account, as well as for the sake
of precision and to prevent repetition, the use of the same terms in the preceding
definitions has been avoided wherever practicable. The design of the volume, being
purely lexical, does not include grammatical, archaeological, or exegetical details, which
would have swelled its size and encumbered its plan.
By observing the subjoined directions, in the associated use of the Main and Comparative
Concordances, the reader will have substantially a Concordance-Dictionary of both the
Authorized and the Revised English Versions, as well as of the Hebrew Bible.
Copyright. 1890. By JAMES STRONG,
MADISON, NJ