In Stewart's day, most Hebrew dictionaries stated that Ish means "man" (although a more accurate English equivalent is "participant"), and Em means "mother".

"One gets an odd feeling thumbing through a modern Hebrew dictionary and seeing so many words one has made up," Oz says.

Amid various editions of his books is a seven-volume Classical Hebrew dictionary.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda contributed to the creation of the first modern Hebrew dictionary.

From the books thus collected Laurence Holbeach is said to heve compiled a Hebrew dictionary about 1410.

Dic Aberdaron's Welsh, Greek, and Hebrew dictionary is now kept at St Asaph Cathedral.

Israeli scholars set out to compile the ultimate Hebrew dictionary, Ha'aretz, April 10, 2012.

I bought every known Hebrew dictionary.

The need for Hebrew words to report the daily news prompted Ben-Yehuda to begin his lifelong project of compiling a Hebrew dictionary.

At age 20 Saadia completed his first great work, the Hebrew dictionary which he entitled Agron.