Excellent book! It took me a while, but I finally understand the concept. Now when I read the Tanakh, it's almost like watching a movie. I can see the action of the words come alive. This is one of the most used books in my collection. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to study. This book has brought a renewed zeal to our weekly Torah study group.

Thank you Jeff for tackling such an enormous project and doing an excellent job.

I have been in the ministry for nearly 30, and have been using this book Ancient Hebrew Lexicon for over a year now. It has been a valuable resource in expanding my understanding of the Old Testament. Having used other references, such as Wilson's O.T. Word Studies, I have often found some generic confirmation, in Wilson's et al, concerning the explanations given by Jeff. In fact one friend, who was raised in Orthodox Judaism and has now accepted Jesus as his Messiah, shared with me concepts, definitions and things that I have found confirmed by Jeff Benner.

I notice that Jeff has encountered some criticism of his work. That certainly is no surprise. I have a graduate degree in another area, and am planning to work on another. One thing I have found in the "upper" academic circles is frequent lack of consensus. Often what is promoted as "absolute" is nothing more than someone else's ego/agenda based on their interpretation of their data.

Truth is verified in the application. I have continually found Mr. Benner's Lexicon to be accurate, not only in application of one word, but in coordination with the same word in other scriptures, when correct hermeneutic principles are adhered to. The basic understandings and revelations given me by the Holy Spirit have been confirmed by this Lexicon.

Back in the sixties there was a debate held on television for a half an hour between those Christians who spoke in tongues and those who did not. At the end of the program the moderator (who was not a Christian, let alone a "tongue-talker") summed up the debate with these words, "Well folks, one thing is clear. One group has an argument, the other has an experience." Jeff Benner has a lot more than an argument!

For anyone wanting to go deeper in their Bible studies, this is a must have. Our study group uses this every week in word studies to help us understand more of what we are reading in our Bibles.

ever want to understand biblical hebrew? this is the first step one could take, this author really breaks down origins of words there meaning and anything else you could think of it is not a pick up and go book but requires you study and really challenges you to be a study of GOD's word.

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I loved this book! It is one of my all time favorite reference books. It has opened up my understanding of the scriptures in a whole new and deeper way.

There are numerous lexicons, dictionaries, and concordances on the market for students to use when translating Hebrew words as they appear in the Old Testament Hebrew text into English. This is one the few (and the only one I know of personally) that not only gives on the viewpoint of translating Hebrew words into English, while carrying across the thought process that comes with Ancient Hebrew culture.

A good example is the word, "Bara" in Genesis 1:1, where it says, "In the beginning, God created (bara) the Heavens and the Earth. The word "Bara" in most concordances and lexicons will simply trnaslated this word as "to create or to make". However, this is an abstract translation. A more concrete translation, as seen from a ancient Hebrew perspective would be "To fatten, or to fill", as what is fattened is filled. Thus, Genesis 1:1 would be better translated, "In the Beginning, God fattened and filled the Heavens and the Earth", portraying the idea of God filling a Earth that was without form and void, and not the idea of him creating it that way.

Another good thing about this book, is it is keyed to the Strongs exhuastive concordance, so you can look up what the word means in this lexicon, and this carry it over to the Strongs concordance to see the various translations. I highly recommend this work. There needs to be more works into the study of Ancient Hebrew culture & thought, and how it effects Biblical interpreation and translation. The only reason why I give it 4 stars, is because there are some roots (only a few) that are left without all their proper translations, but that is the case with pretty much any lexicon, which is why a serious student should always have more than one resource in the first place.

Great book! It's really helping me with my Hebrew studies. I sure hated to miss the seminar. Hope you have one in Florida, or somewhere a little closer than NC in the future.

I use The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible in all of my word studies of the Old Testament. I find the additional insight into ancient hebrew word meanings is necessary to begin to understand the original meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. Thank you for doing the research and for publishing it.