Ideal for Hebrew students and pastors, A Reader’s Hebrew Bible saves time and effort in studying the Hebrew Old Testament. By eliminating the need to look up definitions, the footnotes allow the user to read the Hebrew and Aramaic text more quickly, focusing on parsing and grammatical issues. - Zondervan

Reading is facilitated by providing the definitions of every Hebrew and Aramaic word, either in the glossary or in the apparatus. Strong verbs, nouns, and adjectives that occur less than 70 times are parsed and defined. Infinitives, imperatives, and all weak verb forms are parsed. Unlike other reference works that give the same definition for a given word whenever it appears - the BHS Reader’s Edition provides the definition of the word according to the context of the Scripture passage in which it is found. - Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

Using the standard Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) text, the Hebrew-English Old Testament displays the ESV Old Testament alongside the original Hebrew. On each spread, one page shows the English rendering of a passage while the other shows the Hebrew, enabling readers to work through either language undistracted and uninterrupted. - Crossway

On each page the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) Hebrew text is laid out word-by-word above an English gloss showing the basic meaning and morphology of each word. For reference, the ESV text is presented separately in a column alongside the Hebrew and English gloss. The Hebrew-English Interlinear ESV Old Testament also features important notes from the BHS critical apparatus related to the textual tradition of the ESV. - Crossway

"The illustrations train a learner to visualize the text while reading. This is how a language is internalized. Even character dialogue, which comprises half of the text of Jonah, is presented in images. This innovative technique pairs nearly every Hebrew word with a picture referent. As a reader's edition, footnotes provide glosses for all words occurring fewer than 100 times in the Hebrew Bible. A Hebrew-English dictionary for the rest of the Jonah words is included at the end of the book." - Publisher