![]() ![]() Strong’s dictionary was digitized ( PDF) in 1998 by unknown contributors. By formatting the words in the dictionary and replicating the transliteration as it appears in the dictionary the Open Siddur Project could test the transliteration engine that will be used to transliterate Hebrew text with nikkud (vowels) to any other script (Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Amharic, etc.). ![]() Strong’s dictionary, prepared as a companion to his famous concordance, contains a complete list of Hebrew words that appear in the TaNaKh, transliterated with a consistent ruleset. But in order to provide these features, the dictionaries must be digitized and their contents encoded in a standard searchable format. ![]() Both translations and transliterations are features we would like to provide for users of the Open Siddur application we are developing. Dictionaries also include transliterations. They are also useful features in online applications–and not only for their definitions. Marcus Jastrow’s Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature (1903), Brown-Driver-Brigg’s Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), and James Strong’s Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible with their Renderings (1890) are all standard reference works still used today.īut dictionaries are not only invaluable reference tools for scholarly research. The mark of a particularly valuable dictionary is how long it is still being used years after it’s introduced. Testing Our Transliteration Engine with help from James Strong’s Biblical Hebrew Dictionary 18:53:08 Text the Open Siddur Project the Hierophant the Hierophant the Hierophant Development transliteration dictionary ![]()
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