one of the limitations of Strong's dictionary that we discussed in a previous lecture with Strong's inability to find the words that are derived out of a given route both Justinian's lexicon and the brown driver briggs lexicon will help with this the example we looked at was the verb amon Strong's number 539 and how we are unable to find the words that are derived from this verb lexicons such as jessenia says lexicon at Brown driver Briggs lexicon fill in the gaps that exist with Strong's dictionary Brown driver Briggs identifies the root verb am on and below it it lists all of the words derived from this root here is Strong's dictionary definition for the word on mon training skilled an architect but Brown driver Briggs which goes into much more detail than Strong's provides the definition of artificer architect master workman has one firm and sure in his workmanship Brown driver Briggs references proverbs 8 verse 30 notice that the King James Version has brought up as a translation for the word on mon but the newer translations such as the ASV in the RSV have used the brown driver briggs lexicon in their translations and this is an advantage that the King James Version did not have as I mentioned in the previous lecture you really cannot use this lexicon unless you know the Hebrew alphabet in order to look the words up alphabetically fortunately there is a new brown driver Briggs jessenia celexa Khan that has indexed by Strong's numbers in the back of the book is an index of all Strong's numbers and here is Strong's number 539 the Hebrew word Amon which is located on page 52 column B and here on page 52 is the verb Aman identified with Strong's number 539 then below the root all of the words derived from this root are also identified by Strong's numbers this allows the student who does not know the Hebrew alphabet to still be able to look up words in the brown driver Briggs Justinian's lexicon