This is the English version of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartmer"s Hebrew dictionary. It aims to offer the best of modern lexical research for students of the text of the Bible. The dictionary, published in three volumes, contains the complete vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible, extended with variants from Ugaritic, Akkadian and other Oriental languages and Samaritan textual traditions, the Ben Sira fragments, the Dead Sea Scrolls and more. It takes advantage of the advances that have been made in Semitic linguistics since earlier publications. Another feature is that it offers a strictly alphabetical order of entries rather than an arrangement by verbal roots. This feature should make the dictionary useful for the beginning student of classical Hebrew, but should also save the advanced user some time. Specialist users will find bibliographic information on Old Testament exegesis.