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DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL HEBREW - sdbh.org
TOWARDS A NEW DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL HEBREW BASED ON SEMANTIC DOMAINS Reinier de Blois United Bible Societies Woerden (Utr.), The Netherlands 1. INTRODUCTION In the course of the years many dictionaries of BIBLICAL HEBREW have been published. New dictionaries are on their way. Lexicographical insights have changed a lot over the past years, however. This paper deals with the question as to what extent modern lexicographic insights can be used in ( BIBLICAL ) HEBREW lexicography. Traditional Approaches One of the key questions in semantics, that needs to be answered before anybody can embark on the enormous and tedious task of creating a lexicon of BIBLICAL HEBREW , is the following: How do we find out the meaning of a particular word? If we study some of the more traditional HEBREW dictionaries we can see that a number of criteria have been used to determine the meaning of a particular entry or subentry.
us a lot of insight in the meaning of words and the ways different meanings interrelate. As Barr (1992:143) observes, however, “the semantic analysis of the older dictionaries seems often to be defective
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