THE HEBREW AND CHALDEE ROOTS OF THE OLD CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND SON 7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL PREFACE. ALTHOUGH there are several Hebrew Lexicons extant, some large and some small, some original and some translations or adaptations, it may be stated, without detracting in the least from the respective merits of the works which have hitherto appeared, that, as far as regards the Hebrew-English Dictionaries, the old ones are incompatible with the present approved system of modern study, whilst the modern, which were published with a view to cheapness, are incomplete and deficient. Some of them pretend to be translations from the best German works; but the originals have been, either from doctrinal motives or those of economy, shorn and cut down to that extent, that the term mutilated may be appropriated to them more fairly than "abridged." In no language are found words and roots with so various, and not unfrequently opposite significations, as in the Hebrew, besides the peculiarities in that remarkable tongue arising from the various paradigms. It ought also to be remembered, that the great standard by which the principle of the language is judged rests upon the twenty-four books of the Old Testament Scriptures; by them we are guided in our estimate, valuation |