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Reference Materials

Hebrew

Davar - This is an excellent electronic dictionary as well as a excellent program for comparing Bible texts. It has an abridged version of Brown-Driver-Briggs which is useful for quick look ups. It also has many Bible modules including multiple versions of the Hebrew Bible. Davar 3.0 is out of beta and even better than the previous 2.4.

Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar - This is a scanned copy of the 1910 edition. The PDF download is fully searchable (except for the Hebrew text). Very important grammar.

Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar - This is a hint of good things to come for reference material on the web. The scanned version of GKC has been uploaded to Wikisource and its text is being edited collaboratively online. This is very exciting, and I am looking forward to a similar project moving forward for the BDB.

Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar -This is a link to a retyped PDF copy of the 1910 Gesenius. Not sure of the legality of the site, since it appears to be from Logos. BibleLS font is needed, which can be obtained by downloading Libronix from Logos.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB) - Scanned copy of the 1909 edition. Downloadable PDF.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB) - This is a scanned copy that is posted online and is easily readable. The page is in Russian, but still easy to navigate.

Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew - Put up by the United Bible Society, although it is a work in progress, it has 3,000 entries already and allows you to see the word in context.

Davidson's Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon - Parses and identifies every word form in the Hebrew Bible. This version at the Internet Archive is a fine scan.

Pentateuch Studies

Israel's Law and Legal Precedents - Provides a good listing of biblical laws by type and shows where they are found in the legal material of the Bible.

Aramaic

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) - Aramaic lexicon that is fully searchable and up to date.

Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Jastrow) - Put online by the Tyndale House. It is easy to jump to a letters and page headings, although the load speed is not the greatest.

Greek

Thayer's Greek New Testament Lexicon -

Bibliography

Zotero - This is an add-on for Firefox that captures bibliographic data from webpages and allows you to keep a database of books, articles, webpages, etc. It also has integration with Word and Openoffice in order to create bibliographies in a document.