Biblical Hebrew

Just to clarify an earlier post a bit:

I am not necessarily advocating beating your way through the recommended Hebrew book and learning the language. Rather, I suggest getting the Hebrew grammar book to have handy on your shelf as a research tool. If you know the Hebrew alphabet, then you can use the book to find out if Hebrew word(s) is/are nouns, verbs, singular, plural, etc. Sometimes these distinctions are quite significant, and you can't discern them by looking at Strong's numbers. And sometimes the interlinear rendering is off, too, so you can't just assume that is always correct.

While I am thinking about it, I would also like to heartily recommend the hardbound Englishman's Concordances (two volumes, one for NT one for OT) by Wigram. These volumes are organized by Strong's numbers, and, significantly, many concordance computer programs are based on the information set forth in these books. However, sometimes cracking these volumes open allows you to discover important closely related word(s) to the one(s) you are studying. Every computer program I have ever tried almost always miss such relations, so it is good when to have these additional tools also on your Bible Study bookshelf.