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Cruden's Complete Concordance

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A Bible verse flits through your mind, but you can't remember it exactly, and you're not sure where to find it. You look in the Concordance in the back of your Bible. No help. Even the gigantic Strong's Concordance (which gives you a hernia to lift!) doesn't help because it's keyed only to the King James translation. Cruden's to the rescue! Look up a key word and you find the reference in 'most any translation. Example: you remember somewhere in Scripture the phrase, "God inhabits the praise of His people. So you look under "praise" and you find Psalm 22:3: "OH Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel." OK, so you didn't recall it quite right. Now you know. Another example: you're curious what the Bible has to say about JOY. Wow! More than 2 columns of references on joy and joyful! A Bible study in itself. As a writer, I adore this book, but anyone who loves God's word and studying it will, too.

Although I have both Strongs and Youngs concordances, this one is an excellent choice for your bible readings and research while either on the road or when you simply want to get quickly to the scripture you remember and wish to reference directly. What this has is so many variations of the scripture by word, and the quick short sentences or snippets of scripture will make it very easy for you to find what you are looking for. Although, the more words you remember from a scripture the better/quicker to find it.

If you are not necessarily a researcher and/or someone giving messages or communicating the gist of scripture, this is an excellent reference work. If you wish to have the basic Hebrew or Greek words from which the English derives from then the above two mentioned reference works are best (athough there is a view that the Youngs and Strongs are strongly influenced away from the Koine Greek.)

I just love the Crudens for when I travel, usually light weight and even in the complete edition, not so bulky as to take up too much space. A definate for any library where someone reads the Bible from time to time to the seriously studious who needs a quick look up.

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My copy of "Cruden's Complete Concordance" has been well used over the decades. It should be updated into a larger format with larger print, but it is still a valuable work of some 800 pages.

Any word found in the Bible can be easily located, including variations of the word. For example, there is a listing for "fatlings," "flatling," "fatness," "fats," and "fatted."

Highly recommended along with:
"The New Smith's Bible Dictionary."

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Awlsome book....if someone quotes you a scipture, look it up and see if it is....Mothers love is next to gods love... it is not in the bible, cleanlyness is next to godlyness, is not in there.....

I had a Crudens many years ago, and recently bought this one because of the compact book size to take on a trip.
It was as I had remembered (very usable) and came in very handy on the trip.
I was also pleasantly surprised to find a Proper Names appendix that also came in handy.