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Title: The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary by N. S. Doniach, a Kahane, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies ISBN: 0-19-860172-7 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A phenomenal dictionary, perhaps not for beginners
Comment: This is a phenomenal dictionary. Some things that make it so great:
1) Huge numbers of usage examples, at a wide range of levels of
formality. The examples give information that's lacking in most dictionaries, such as which preposition(s) to use with a given verb. They also contain a wealth of idiomatic constructions. I'm amazed at how much time I've spent just browsing through the examples in this book.
2) Excellent differentiation between multiple meanings of a word. If there are multiple Hebrew words that correspond to a given English word, they are very clearly differentiated, often with examples that further clarify when to use which (see above).
3) The vocabulary covered is VERY comprehensive and covers all ranges of style, from literary to colloquial (including, I was happy to discover, many obscenities).
This dictionary also is not necessarily for beginners. Some reasons that it's not necessarily for beginners:
1) It's English-to-Hebrew only; if you're looking for a very first dictionary, you might do better with a bilingual one.
2) It doesn't list the gender of nouns, nor does it list irregular plurals. (Gender and plurals can generally be figured out, if you know the rules, but it's nice to have them made explicit.)
Since this dictionary is published by Oxford, the English is overwhelmingly British. This is most obvious in the fact that many British idiomatic expressions are included, while American ones seem less well-represented...
Rating: 4
Summary: Comprehensive Coverage
Comment: The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary contains "Comprehensive coverage from slang and colloquialisms to technical and scientific terminology." This mammoth of a book contains over 1000 pages. However I was slightly disappointed by this English-Hebrew dictionary. Besides the fact that it is only English-Hebrew & not Hebrew-English this can be a hard to follow enigma. The words are so numerous the reader can spend hours searching for the correct word. Most every word has sub phrases e.g. at random I chose the word collaborate & below it I found "work together" & "work for the enemy." I also noticed as I was flipping through this book that it contains many curse words. Not only does this book contain a plethora of words but it contains associated phrases. Besides containing words that I never thought I'd hear & probably lay in the deep ravine of my mind this book doesn't contain much of anything. There is a short 3-page pronunciation guide & a 4-pages introduction. Overall if you're looking for an English-Hebrew dictionary that will contain almost any word you can think of then this is the dictionary for you. I believe this dictionary is for the advanced scholar & not for the average student. However in its field there is no better English-Hebrew dictionary, just beware that is for the advanced scholars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent English-Hebrew reference work.
Comment: It has what is probably the most important feature of a foreign-language dictionary: it explains the different contexts of a word, idiomatic usages, and expressions containing the headwords, not just the quick one word definitions many pocket dictionaries offer. A dictionary that simply tells you that three words equate to one English word without telling you where which word should be used is useless, and the Oxford dictionary avoids that trap. It's a must-have for students of Hebrew. I wish the Hebrew-English side was available, though.
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Title: 501 Hebrew Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Follow Format alphabetically Arranged by Root by Shmuel Bolozky, Abraham S. Halkin ISBN: 0812094689 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Hebrew/English Dictionary by Ben Yehuda ISBN: 0671688626 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Oxford Dictionary: English-Hebrew/Hebrew-English by Ya'Acov Levy, Lonnie Kahn Kernerman ISBN: 9653070274 Publisher: Kernermann Pub Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Easy Hebrew Phrase Book : Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use by Dover ISBN: 0486285561 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 29 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Hebrew for Dummies by Jill Suzanne Jacobs ISBN: 0764554891 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 03 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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