The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English LexiconA trio of eminent Old Testament scholars, Francis Brown, R. Driver, and Charles Briggs, spent over twenty years researching, writing, and preparing this 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 English speaking students. Based upon the classic work of Wilhelm Gesenius, the father of modern. Hebrew lexicography, BDB gives not only