Question on 'im' ending in Gen 6:16

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The first word in question is, in the lexical form, תַּחְתִּי taḥtî, which means "the lowest part." In Holladay's A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (CHALOT), the author says specifically with regard to Genesis 6:16 that it means "lowest storey" (in a house/building). ...

Please permit me a quick side question: How would you compare CHALOT with Brown-Driver-Briggs?

(1) CHALOT is easier to search because it lists words by form rather than theoretical root.
(2) CHALOT is easier to carry around, but it's also more compact (giving glosses rather than explanations).
(3) CHALOT is more up-to-date than BDB.

When I started biblical Hebrew, we used exclusively BDB, so I learned how to identify roots and search that way. I much prefer to simply look up the word as-is. For a dictionary that you want to carry with you, CHALOT is the way to go.

Thank you.