About the Hebrew Bible With Analytical Keys

Introduction

The Hebrew Bible with Analytical Keys is an indispensable resource for all students of the Biblical Hebrew—it provides the grammatical and lexical value of every single word in the Hebrew Bible. Simply open the Hebrew Bible to any chapter and verse, click on the Hebrew word, and a data box pops up, exhibiting the word’s grammatical and lexical elements as well as the English meaning. For example,

• Genesis 1:1 - Click on בָּרָא and the data box exhibits the lexical form (ברא), the English meaning (“to create”), and the lexical value: Verb qal perfect 3ms [third masculine singular].
• Genesis 1:7 - Click on the הָ of הָרָקִיעַ and the data box exhibits the lexical form (הַ), the English meaning (“the”), and the lexical value: Particle definite article.
• Genesis 1:7 - Click on רָקִיעַ and the data box exhibits the lexical form (רָקִיעַ), the English meaning (“expanse, sky”), and and the lexical value: Noun ms [masculine singular] absolute.
• Genesis 1:16 - Click on כּוֹכָבִים and the data box exhibits the lexical form (כּוֹכָב), the English meaning (“star”), and the lexical value: Noun mp [masculine plural] absolute.

There are 9,369 different words in the Hebrew Bible (occurring a total of 306,757 times); click on any word to open the data box! The Hebrew Bible with Analytical Keys is absolutely comprehensive and very easy to use.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank many individuals for their work on the Frequency Dictionary of the Hebrew Bible—the WordCruncher Team in the Office of Digital Humanities at Brigham Young University (Jason W. Dzubak, director; Lauryn M. Wilde, project manager; Jesse Vincent, former project manager; and Dr. Monte F. Shelley, emeritus director). We gratefully acknowledge them for their professionalism, expertise, and significant contributions. We also express profound gratitude to Stephen Salisbury of the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research for the use of Westminster Hebrew Morphology, Version 4.22, Copyright© 2020, All Rights Reserved. In our judgment, the linguistic analysis of Westminster Hebrew Morphology constitutes the most accurate characterization of the Leningrad Codex (Hebrew Bible) that exists.