An Akkadian lexicon companion to biblical Hebrew
Subtitle: etymological, semantic and idiomatic equivalence with supplement on biblical Aramaic
By: by Hayim Tawil.
Publisher: KTAV Pub. House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Jersey City]
Language: eng; akk; heb
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9781602801141
Subjects: Hebrew language -- Dictionaries -- Akkadian; Hebrew language -- Dictionaries -- English
Genres: Dictionaries
Description: "The Companion does not confine its interest solely to etymological equivalents with Akkadian but also embraces semantic and idiomatic relationships. It helps uncover meanings for Hebrew words that have eluded clear definition in particular contexts, but which have either Akkadian cognates or vocable euivalents employed in a similar context. It proposes nuances for Hebrew words suggested by similar Akkadian usages. It illuminates idioms from related expressions in Akkadian. It corrects certain understandings of Hebrew words and expressions in light of their Akkadian equivalents. It shows that the large resource of Akkadian literature, though geographically and temporally somewhat remote and linguistically somewhat different from Hebrew, can, offer a large number of insights for the task of understanding and interpreting Biblical Hebrew." -- Publisher's website