Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament

{{short description|Scholarly dictionary}}

The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament ("HALOT") is a scholarly dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, which has partially supplanted Brown–Driver–Briggs.{{cite web|last1=Brettler|first1=Marc|title=Lexica - Tools for Studying the Hebrew Bible|url=https://sites.google.com/site/toolsforstudyingthehebrewbible/lexicons|website=Tools for Studying the Hebrew Bible|access-date=22 July 2017}}

It is a translation and updating of the German-language Koehler-Baumgartner Lexicon, which first appeared in 1953, into English; the first volume was published in 1994{{cite journal|last1=Gordon|first1=Robert P.|title=Review of The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Volume I|journal=The Journal of Theological Studies|date=1997|volume=48|issue=1|pages=143–144|doi=10.1093/jts/48.1.143 |jstor=23966768}} the fourth volume, completing the Hebrew portion, was published in 1999,{{cite journal|last1=Elliott|first1=J. K.|title=Review of The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament|journal=Novum Testamentum|date=2001|volume=43|issue=2|pages=196–197|jstor=561035}} and the fifth volume, on Aramaic, was published in 2000.{{cite web|title=The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, Volume 5 Aramaic|url=https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_4YY0XDPAO.HTM|publisher=Eisenbrauns|access-date=22 July 2017}} The work was re-issued in 2001 as an unabridged two-volume set.{{cite book|last1=Koehler|first1=Ludwig|last2=Baumgartner|first2=Walter|last3=Stamm|first3=Johann Jakob|title=The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament|date=2001|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden [u.a.]|isbn=9789004124455|edition=2 vol. study ed., unabridged.}}

It differs from Brown–Driver–Briggs in being ordered alphabetically, instead of by root. It includes a bibliography, as well as references to the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Vulgate, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ben Sira.