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The Blue Letter Bible staff has completed the task of displaying Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon on our website.

This lexicon was originally written by Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) in the German language. Gesenius's influence as a master of Hebrew is widespread. The editors of the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon refer to him as the father of modern Hebrew Lexicography. Gesenius first published a work on Hebrew grammar in 1817 before turning his efforts on lexicography.

There have been various versions of Gesenius's work in English. We have chosen to use the version translated by Samuel P. Tregelles (1813-1875). Tregelles is most famous for his version of the Greek New Testament, though he also wrote hymns and worked with Hebrew grammar in addition to textual criticism.

As mentioned in the section called To the Student, Gesenius was a known rationalist, or neologian as Tregelles refers to him. Though some of these rationalistic expressions are found in the lexicon, Tregelles was faithful to make corrections, which are enclosed in brackets. We would be appreciative of any actual examples of doctrinal error, so they can be marked with "caution" tags.
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Strong's Definitions Legend

† — Indicates that the form listed is a variant spelling or variant form of the Greek word found in Strong's Greek Dictionary under that number.

+ — Denotes a rendering of one or more Greek/Hebrew words in connection with the one under consideration.

X — Denotes a rendering that results from an idiom peculiar to the Greek or Hebrew.

( ) — Denotes a word or syllable sometimes given in connection with the principal word to which it is annexed.

[ ] — Denotes the inclusion of an additional word in the Greek/Hebrew.

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Concordance Information
1769 King James Authorized Version

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Wigram's Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance (1843/1890)
Wigram's Englishman's Greek Concordance (1839/1903)

identified using
James Strong's numbers (1890)
Corrections to Strong's numbers copyright by others
"George Wigram's Englishman's Greek and Hebrew Concordances were produced in 1839 and 43 respectively and contain a complete listing of all occurrences of each unique Greek and Hebrew word in the New and Old Testaments. It was not until fifty years later that James Strong assigned numbers to each unique word in the Old and New Testaments and produced a dictionary listing each word with its number. This electronic text combines Wigram's identification (of each unique word's occurrence) and Strong's numbering system, using Strong's numbers to mark each location where Wigram identified a particular word. The result is a 100% accurate Strong's Concordance imbedded within the KJV." Courtesy of the good folks at Online Bible (Used with Permission).
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Strong's Dictionary and Gesenius' Lexicon
The Blue Letter Bible staff has begun the task of searching each Hebrew / Greek word in several different Lexicons / Dictionaries, and researching the different root forms that each word can take.

When you see (Str.) next to a Hebrew or Greek word, it means that this word is represented as a root form in "A Concise Dictionary of the Words in The Hebrew Bible", by James Strongs (19th Century)

When you see (Ges.) next to a Hebrew word, it means that this word is represented as a root form in "Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures", edited by Samuel Tregelles (circa 1846)

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