A trio of eminent Old Testament scholars--Francis Brown, R. Driver, and Charles Briggs--spent over twenty years
researching, writing, and preparing The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Since it first appeared
in the early part of the twentieth century, BDB has been considered the finest and most comprehensive Hebrew lexicon
available to the English-speaking student. Based upon the classic work of Wilhelm Gesenius, the "father of
modern Hebrew lexicography," BDB gives not only dictionary definitions for each word, but relates each word
to its Old Testament usage and categorizes its nuances of meaning. BDB's exhaustive coverage of Old Testament Hebrew
words, as well as its unparalleled usage of cognate languages and the wealth of background sources consulted and
quoted, render BDB and invaluable resource for all students of the Bible.