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Strong's Concordance

Every word of the text indexed and numbered back to the original.

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Isaiah 28:10 · 2 Timothy 2:15

Line upon line, precept upon precept. Rightly handling the word of truth means taking the trouble to see how the Bible actually uses a term before deciding what it means.

What this shelf holds

  • An exhaustive index of the English text, each word keyed by number to a Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek entry.
  • The most common doorway into original language study for readers who do not read the languages.

How to use it

  • Use the numbers to gather occurrences, then read those passages. The list is the beginning of the study, not the study.
  • Move to a real lexicon before you draw a conclusion. Strong's glosses are labels, not definitions.

What this cannot settle

Reading a Strong's gloss into a verse produces the classic error of preaching a meaning the sentence never carried. The numbers index words; they do not interpret them.

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Reference works

Each of these is named so you can open it and check us. Each carries what it is good for and what it cannot decide.

Every entry below is labelled with the kind of evidence it is, so a lexicon is never mistaken for the text and a commentary is never mistaken for a conclusion Scripture has drawn.

  • Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

    Biblical cross-referencesSupports the text, never settles it · James Strong, 1890 · Public domain

    Every word of the King James text indexed, each keyed by number to a Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek entry.

    Use forFinding every occurrence of an original word and following it across the canon.

    CautionThe numbered glosses are the briefest possible summary, not a definition. A word's meaning in one verse is set by that verse, not by the whole range Strong lists.

  • Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible

    Biblical cross-referencesSupports the text, never settles it · Robert Young, 1879 · Public domain

    English words sorted by which original word lies behind them.

    Use forSeeing where one English word translates several different Hebrew or Greek words.

    CautionKeyed to the King James Version, so the English entries will not always match the translation you are reading.

  • A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament

    Original languageSupports the text, never settles it · Francis Brown, S. R. Driver and Charles Briggs, 1906 · Public domain

    Hebrew and Aramaic vocabulary arranged by root, with attested senses and passages.

    Use forEstablishing the documented range of a Hebrew word and its cognates.

    CautionArrangement by root can suggest connections between words that the biblical writers never made. Its comparative etymologies are often proposals.

  • A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

    Original languageSupports the text, never settles it · Joseph Henry Thayer, 1889 · Public domain

    New Testament Greek vocabulary with classical and Septuagint usage noted.

    Use forTracing how a Greek word was used before the New Testament reached for it.

    CautionWritten before the papyri showed how ordinary first century Greek actually sounded, so some entries read the vocabulary as more literary than it was.

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