Biblical Lexicon

Hebrew, Aramaic & Greek lexicon with multilingual glosses and semantic domains

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14,884
Lemmas
20,311
Senses
348,858
Gloss Records
174,406
References

Some Random Lemmas

H2792
N-proper-ms 1 senses
Cheresh, a Levite who returned from Babylonian exile
The listing among post-exilic Levites serves to document families who returned to Jerusalem and reestablished the temple cult. Chronicles pr...
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G5451
N-NFS 1 senses
plant, planting, something planted
A plant or something planted, used metaphorically by Jesus. In Matthew 15:13, responding to the Pharisees' offense at his teaching, Jesus de...
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H0486
N-proper-ms 1 senses
Almodad, a South Arabian people descended from Joktan
Multilingual transliteration is consistent: 'Almodad' in English, Spanish, French, and German, with French and German optionally bracketing...
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H8404
N-proper-fs 1 senses
Taberah (place-name: 'burning,' site of divine judgment in wilderness)
This wilderness location appears in both narrative (Numbers 11) and retrospective (Deuteronomy 9) contexts. The Hebrew name directly connect...
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G0960
N-DFS 1 senses
Berea, a city in Macedonia known for its noble-minded inhabitants
Acts 17:10 records Paul and Silas being sent by night to Berea, where they found a more receptive audience than in Thessalonica. Acts 17:13...
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G5568
N-GMP 1 senses
A psalm; a sacred song originally sung to stringed accompaniment, used for OT Psalms and Christian worship songs.
A psalm or sacred song sung to stringed accompaniment — encompassing both references to the Old Testament book of Psalms as authoritative Sc...
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G5055
V-AIP-3S 28× 4 senses
To complete, finish, or bring to an end; to fulfill prophecy or obligation; to pay taxes or tribute
The passive or middle sense of being completed, fulfilled, or brought to consummation, especially of prophetic purposes and divine appointme...
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G1422
Adj-NNS 1 senses
Difficult, hard to accomplish, troublesome; presenting challenges or obstacles
Mark 10:24 records Jesus' observation that it's 'difficult' for the wealthy to enter God's kingdom. The adjective describes something genuin...
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H4349
N-ms 17× 2 senses
An established place or foundation; a fixed dwelling, especially God's heavenly seat or his earthly sanctuary.
A fixed, established dwelling or habitation — the prepared place of God's residence. The Song of the Sea celebrates the sanctuary as the מָכ...
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Most Frequent Lemmas

G3588
Art-DNS 20,036× 6 senses
The definite article; also substantivizer, connective, and comparative marker across all cases and genders
The basic definite article marking a noun as known, specific, or previously mentioned. With over 18,000 occurrences, this is the default fun...
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H0853
Conj-w | Pro 10,977× 2 senses
Direct object marker for definite nouns; also a homographic preposition meaning 'with, beside, near'
The definite direct object marker, prefixed to nouns that are determined (by article, construct, proper name, or suffix). Untranslatable in...
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G2532
Conj 9,083× 2 senses
Conjunction 'and'; also adverbial 'also, even, likewise' for emphasis or addition
The copulative conjunction 'and,' joining words, phrases, and clauses in sequence. This is the default connective of Greek prose and narrati...
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H????
8,878× 94 senses
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H3068
Prep-k | N-proper-ms 6,522× 1 senses
Yahweh -- the covenantal personal name of the God of Israel, the Tetragrammaton YHWH
The divine personal name Yahweh, revealed at the burning bush (Exod 3:14-15) and used throughout Scripture as the covenantal name binding Go...
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H5921a
Prep 5,769× 9 senses
upon, on, over; against; beside, by, at; because of, therefore; concerning, about; for, on behalf of; to, unto; according to, in addition to
Core spatial sense of surface contact or vertical superiority: literally 'on top of' or 'upon.' Arabic consistently renders עַל as عَلَى, Ko...
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G0846
PPro-AN3P 5,611× 3 senses
He, she, it; self; the same — third-person pronoun with intensive and identity uses
The default and overwhelmingly dominant use: a personal pronoun for the third person in every grammatical case, gender, and number. Across a...
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H0413
Prep 5,516× 7 senses
to, toward; into; upon, on; against; for, concerning; with, among
Primary directional sense: 'to' or 'toward' a person, place, or thing. With over 5,300 occurrences, this dominates Hebrew prose. Spanish 'a,...
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