Hebrew dictionaries

Isasa31
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Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-09-10, 0:21

I've realized that the most of hebrew dictionaries have the disposal of the entries very simple: The entry and then its meaning but lacks of : Subentries,grammar explanations,and examples.The subentries of actual dictionaries is limited and simple and they may have colloquial language,slangs..etc
I'd like to have a good hebrew dictionary that satisfy my needings.
Anyone knows a dictionary with subentries,examples..etc?

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-09-12, 0:30

Anybody have an answer?

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Lemanensis » 2015-09-12, 5:42

Isasa31 wrote:Anybody have an answer?


I don't, but are you talking about:
1. Bilingual Hebrew-English dictionaries
2. Bilingual Hebrew-X dictionaries
3. Monolingual Hebrew dictionaries

Not even Morfix has all the things you mention...
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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-09-14, 1:50

I'm talking about the info of a word.A word may have subentries that explain its differents usage.is very commom in many dictionaries

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Hadronic » 2015-09-16, 4:01

Yes, I know what you mean.
Hebrew "dictionaries" are more like lexicons than actual dictionaries. Unfortunately Hebrew lexicography is in a really poor shape.
The closest I could find to a real dictionary is : Oxford English - Hebrew dictionary (which has only one side ; it is not perfect though, a word like "already" has multiple meaning, can't only be כבר), and the Larousse French - Hebrew / Hebrew - French.
All other dictionaries are lexicons.
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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-09-18, 23:48

What do you mean in lexicography poor shape?

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-09-22, 0:05

I want to know what do you mean in lexicography poor shape?

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-09-26, 23:57

can anybody answer me back ?

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Hadronic » 2015-09-28, 0:53

"lexicography is in poor shape" basically means that dictionaries are bad :)
You won't find the quality you can find with bigger languages like French, Japanese etc...
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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-09-29, 1:42

I hope that in the future can we have complete dictionaries of hebrew with many info for a word and examples of usage.

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-10-06, 2:15

Talking about the entries in the dictionaries I have this question:The modern hebrew word does have several meanings or is meaning is limited?

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Isasa31 » 2015-10-07, 1:15

I've made a wrong answer so I apologize.I want to give you an example so you can see what i'm trying to mean about the entries of the hebrews dictionaries.
this is an entry of a spanish-english dictionary:

mandar:1.to order,to tell 2.to ask 3.to send 4.to rule,to govern 5.to leave,to bequeath mandar por-to send for mandar hacer algo-to have sth done.

As you can see in this dictionary the spanish word of "mandar" have many forms of usage and also subentries(mandar por,mandar hacer algo). So my question is if the modern hebrew word have many forms of usage or is limited?

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby caleteu » 2016-12-24, 14:06

Yes, modern Hebrew words have many usages. The best dictionary I have found for the purpose is Reuben Alcalay. Or if you want to go online, www.lexilogos.com/english has several dictionaries for modern Hebrew.
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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby caleteu » 2017-09-17, 5:27

Is the new Alcalay "The Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary" much different from the 1963 edition? There is a good offer online, but I don't want to spend that even much if it's only a few terms.

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby IpseDixit » 2017-09-20, 10:12

Ironically enough, the best Hebrew "dictionary" that I know of is google translate. Usually, if you enter a single word, it'll give you different alternatives depending on the intended meaning.

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Drink » 2017-09-20, 12:41

Actually the best online Hebrew-English and English-Hebrew dictionary is Morfix (way better than Google Translate, although Google Translate will sometimes give you a better translation of common short phrases). With Morfix you can type in any form of a word with any prefixes and/or suffixes that it could possibly occur with and it will give you every possible dictionary entry for that word, with proper vowels and good definitions. For example, typing in משחק will bring up the entries for mischak (= game), sichek (= to play; because of the form mesachek), shachak (= clouds; because of the orefixed form mi-shachak), and even chek, chok, and chak (because each of those can be prefixed with mi-she-).

I generally use this for all purposes (whether Modern, Mishnaic, or Biblical Hebrew, although it is certainly geared towards Modern), but have a copy of Even Shoshan, probably the best existing comprehensive Hebrew-Hebrew dictionary, for when I need more detail. I often find myself reading a definition from Even Shoshan and looking up the unfamiliar words from the definition in Morfix!
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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby Edward4 » 2017-11-30, 17:43

Currently, I am using the Websters' New Hebrew Dictionary. It includes pronunciation, and verb tense, which is extremely helpful.

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Re: Hebrew dictionaries

Postby caleteu » 2017-12-01, 13:16

The more I read, the more I appreciate having several options. Reuben-Alcalay, Morfix and Reverso provide a variety of possibilites in context, Reuben-Alcalay has the niqqud, and when all else fails, Google Translate may have a translation that the others lack.
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