Dictionaries and such

Regarding dictionaries and reference tools, I think the best Hebrew to English (but not English to Hebrew) dictionary out there is Brown, Driver, and Briggs' A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. It's sometimes harder to use than the Bantam Meggido, since you have to look up words by their root, but after each word, it has a definition followed by every use of the word in the Hebrew Bible. Quite helpful when, say, you want to know how the word "to remember" is used in the Bible, or want to know every particular use of a Name of God. It's also less than $25, so it's inexpensive and worth having in your intellectual arsenal.

I've also found very helpful The NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament. It's much better than even facing-page translations when your Hebrew is as bad as mine.