The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary (Hebrew Edition) |
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Author:
Reuven Sivan,
Edward A. Levenston
By Bantam
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List Price: $6.99
Our Price: $3.54
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Product Description
The most up-to-date and comprehensive one-volume English/Hebrew, Hebrew/English Dictionary available anywhere in the world.
46,000 entries, including a concise explanation of the essentials of grammar in both languages. Hundreds of new words in both English and Hebrew.
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Avoid this dictionary, 2007-08-28
I am a native speaker in both Hebrew and English so my usage of the dictionary may be biased towards the less frequent words. That said, I cannot recall a single instance when I looked up a word in this dictionary and found a proper translation. In those few cases where a translation was available (and those were few indeed) it was terse and incoherent. This dictionary is completely useless to anyone beyond a total novice and even a beginner may want more comprehensive translations than what is begin offered.
There are much better dictionaries on the market and there is no reason to waste money on this one.
A solid pocket dictionary, 2006-05-01
I used this book when I was a beginner and I recently bought a new copy because the old one fell apart after a few years of carrying it around. The book is a bit flimsy, made of newsprint so the pages can rip easily and the cover and spine start to weaken after a while. But I can't complain about that too much because the price is quite low.
I never had any problems with the print quality. I just flipped through it now and I could see the difference between nun's and gimel's with no trouble.
Sometimes the word I try to look up isn't in the dictionary. That's frustrating, but pocket dictionaries are always limited in scope. Any serious student should have a heavy duty hardcover dictionary to refer to whenever the pocket dictionary fails.
A dictionary with example sentences is always much more useful than one without, and this dictionary doesn't have any. That is a shortcoming. A good one with example sentences is the Oxford English-Hebrew/Hebrew-English dictionary (available in both hardcover and paperback).
This one dictionary is probably not enough for studying Hebrew, but for a cheap pocket dictionary it does the trick. I always carried this cheap one around with me and left my hardcover treasures at home.
Miserable print quality, 2006-04-10
The Hebrew letters are very small, fuzzy, smudgy, and painful to read. The difference between a gimel and a nun can be impossible to see, chaf and bet confused, even heh and hhet are hard to pick apart. I need a huge magnifier and a good deal of luck to get a result. It's a shame because the dictionary contains a large number of words. Keep looking and skip this one. It will become plant food at my house once I find a replacement.
pretty fricken great, 2006-03-21
i liked how it was organized, and is good for a quick reference. maybe not for traveling around israel, but a great homework help!
Frustrating!, 2006-03-19
I bought this book because of the high praises from other reviewers. I have never had any Hebrew lessons and I am homeschooling my child in Hebrew. I needed a good strong dictionary so, we can work on vocabulary and understand what we are reading. I wear glasses and the font was way too small. Sometimes, the font is so tiny that it looks smudgey. This makes it hard to distinguish between a gimel and a nun. Believe me, I know the difference. It did not have some basic words that I was looking for either. To me, (in my personal opinion), I found it very confusing trying to look up the word in Hebrew to figure it out in English. There was no visible pattern. For example, I was looking for a word that began with a chet. I found that easy enough. However, when you look for the vowels as the letter that follows the consonant, it seems so complicated. It does not seem to go in order at that point. Perhaps, I just have to try to figure it out. Then again, I might just opt for a more practical dictionary for me especially with a bigger font!
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 492.4321
EAN: 9780553263879
ISBN: 0553263870
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: 1984-11-01
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: 1984-10-01
Studio: Bantam |
