STRONG’S EXHAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

JAMES STRONG, S.T.D., LL.D first published this Concordance in 1890. It lists every word in the “King James
Bible” in each location and gives the Hebrew and Greek “root” meaning at most occurrences— the understanding which a native speaker would have. This is a wonderful insight for understanding the text being read, whether you speak any Hebrew or Greek at all! The Micro version enables anyone to carry it with him in the back of his Bible—at his fingertips.

HOW TO USE THE MICRO STRONG'S CONCORDANCE

1.)To find where a verse is in the Bible, look up the most striking, significant word you can remember. Be sure to spell the word exactly as in the King James Bible. If you can’t find it, try a different word. Because the Micro Strong’s omits the phrase from the text for each word, you are forced to familiarize yourself with where that word occurs in the entire Bible—this is a rewarding word study exercise.

 2.)The numbers beside each reference are where the word is found in the Hebrew or Greek Dictionaries in the rear of the concordance. If no number is given for that reference, then it is the number given for “all=”. If the word in your verse is not listed in the Concordance, it was “supplied” by the translators (and often printed in italics in the Bible), meaning that it is implied or required by the grammatical form.

3.)The small superscripts (for example, 2 , etc.) that appear following some verse numbers indicate the number of times the word appears in the verse.

4.) In the Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries, each definition is followed by “:–” and then is written every way that word is translated in the King James Bible; this gives you an exhaustive list of everywhere that Hebrew or Greek word is found in the Bible.

5.) “sup”=supplied; “subscri”=subscript; “t”=title. Look in the APPENDIX for persons, places, and races, as well as for the following
49 words which are seldom looked up: a , all, an, and, are, as, be, but, by, for, from, he, her, him, his, I, if, in, is, it, me, my, not, O, of, our, out, shall, shalt, she, that, the, thee, their, them, they, thou, thy, to, unto, up, upon, us, was, we, were, with, ye, you.

Because Hebrew in its essential elements and vocabulary is much simpler than Greek or Latin, it is possible to have access to the majestic Hebrew tongue─which conveys to us the greater portion of the oracles of God. A good start would be the Handbook of Biblical Hebrew by Sanford LaSor (Eerdman’s Publ, 1980). (This is actually a delightful verse by verse study of the book of Esther.) With what you learn from LaSor, you will then be able to have a depth of understanding of the grammatical analysis from Benjamin Davidson’s Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (Hendrickson Publ. Co). It is necessary to memorize the Hebrew alphabet (listed on the first page of the Hebrew Dictionary) in order to use Davidson, but knowing the Hebrew “aleph-bets” will actually give you beginning access to the Hebrew Bible and to all Hebrew references. Also consider Do It Yourself Hebrew and Greek by Ed Goodrick, (Multnomah Press). “Lasor, Goodrick, and Davidson” are helpful friends.