Biblical Studies: Biblical Languages
A Guide to Resources for Biblical Scholarship at the Burke Library
Location of Lexica
The principal lexica in Hebrew (HALOT, Gesenius, BDB), Greek (BAGD, Liddell-Scott, Lampe), and Latin (Lewis and Short, DMLBS) are located on the dictionary stand in the corner of the Main Reading Room, adjacent to the commentaries.
Hebrew
Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) by Call Number: READING ROOM LEXICONS- Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB)Call Number: READING ROOM LEXICONS
- Reader's Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old TestamentCall Number: BURKE REF PJ4833 .A69 2013
- Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon to the Old Testament ScripturesCall Number: READING ROOM LEXICONS
- Gesenius' Hebräisches und aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte TestamentCall Number: READING ROOM LEXICONS
Greek
- Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (BAGD)Call Number: READING ROOM LEXICONS
- Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New TestamentCall Number: BURKE REF PA881 .K8 1975
- Analytical Lexicon to the SeptuagintCall Number: BURKE REF BS744 .T38 2009
- Greek-English Lexicon of the SeptuagintCall Number: BURKE REF PA781 .L87 1992
- Thesaurus Linquae GraecaeThe TLG digital library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. Topics include Greek literature, history, and culture.
- Lampe's Patristic Greek LexiconCall Number: READING ROOM LEXICONS
Syriac, Coptic, Aramaic
- A Syriac lexicon : a translation from the Latin : correction, expansion, and update of C. Brockelmann['s] Lexicon syriacumCall Number: BURKE REF PJ5491 .S55 2009
- Payne-Smith Syriac DictionaryCall Number: BURKE REF PJ5491 .P3 1979
- Gorgias concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac dictionaryCall Number: BURKE REF PJ5491 .B76 2015
- Coptic-Latin lexicon : lexicon copticumCall Number: BUTLER PJ2181 .P49 2009g
- A lexicon of Biblical Aramaic : clarified by ancient documentsCall Number: BURKE REF PJ5216 .V6413 2011g
- Crum's Coptic DictionaryCall Number: BURKE REF PJ2181 .C7
- Liddell-Scott Greek LexiconCall Number: READING ROOM LEXICONS
