The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible [Hardcover]

James Strong (Author), John R. Kohlenberger III (Author), James A. Swanson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2001

Like a redwood that towers above all other trees, The Strongest Strong's takes James Strong's classic concordance to unprecedented heights. Reflecting thousands of research hours, custom computer technology, and an exclusive database perfected over twenty years, The Strongest Strong's is packed with features that make it the last word in accuracy and usefulness. No other Strong's concordance can touch it. This is no mere study tool. Destined to become a foundational resource for Bible study the world over, The Strongest Strong's is a landmark in biblical reference works. What Makes This Strong's the Strongest? Rebuilding Strong's time-honored concordance from the ground up, biblical research experts John Kohlenberger and James Swanson have achieved unprecedented accuracy and clarity. Longstanding errors have been corrected. Omissions filled in. Word studies simplified. Thoroughness and ease of use have been united and maximized. Kohlenberger and Swanson have also added the Nave's Topical Bible Reference System---the world's most complete topical Bible, updated, expanded, and streamlined to meet the needs of today's Bible user. No other edition of Strong's or Nave's gives you all the information combined in The Strongest Strong's A Stunning Array of World-Class Features In order to experience all the advantages of The Strongest Strong's, you'll have to look inside. But here is a thumbnail sketch of what awaits you: - Computer-verified accuracy. For the first time ever, cutting-edge computer analysis provides unparalleled, pinpoint accuracy - Strong's numbering system speeds you through word studies, giving you clear insights into Greek and Hebrew words - Goodrick-Kohlenberger numbers in the dictionary indexes give you access to the growing library of reference tools that use these numbers---another unique feature - The most up-to-date Hebrew and Greek dictionaries ensure precise meaning in your word studies - Nave's Topical Bible Reference System supplies the complete descriptive content and references (without the Bible text) of Nave's Topical Bible, expanded to provide a total of more than 100,000 verses indexed by subject, word, phrase, synonym, and example - Cross-references to places and names used in Bible translations besides the KJV - Word counts furnish a complete accounting of every word in the Bible - Fast-Tab locators help you find your place quickly and easily - Smythe-sewn binding opens fully, lays flat, and lasts longer - Words of Christ highlighted in red - Maps - Clear, easy-to-read type PLUS: Comprehensive guidance for using The Strongest Strong's - Major Social Concerns of the Mosaic Covenant - Old Testament Sacrifices - Hebrew Calendar - Hebrew Feasts and Holy Days - Weights, Lengths, and Measures of the Bible - Kings of the Bible - Harmony of the Gospels - Prophecies of the Messiah Fulfilled in Jesus - Parables of Jesus - Miracles of Jesus - Chronology of the Bible

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From the Back Cover

Like a redwood that towers above all other trees, The Strongest Strong’s takes James Strong’s classic concordance to unprecedented heights. Reflecting thousands of research hours, custom computer technology, and an exclusive database perfected over twenty years, The Strongest Strong’s is packed with features that make it the last word in accuracy and usefulness. No other Strong’s concordance can touch it. This is no mere study tool. Destined to become a foundational resource for Bible study the world over, The Strongest Strong’s is a landmark in biblical reference works.

What Makes This Strong’s the Strongest?

Rebuilding Strong’s time-honored concordance from the ground up, biblical research experts John Kohlenberger and James Swanson have achieved unprecedented accuracy and clarity. Longstanding errors have been corrected. Omissions filled in. Word studies simplified. Thoroughness and ease of use have been united and maximized.

Kohlenberger and Swanson have also added the Nave’s Topical Bible Reference System—the world’s most complete topical Bible, updated, expanded, and streamlined to meet the needs of today’s Bible user. No other edition of Strong’s or Nave’s gives you all the information combined in The Strongest Strong’s

A Stunning Array of World-Class Features

In order to experience all the advantages of The Strongest Strong’s, you’ll have to look inside. But here is a thumbnail sketch of what awaits you:

· Computer-verified accuracy. For the first time ever, cutting-edge computer analysis provides unparalleled, pinpoint accuracy

· Strong’s numbering system speeds you through word studies, giving you clear insights into Greek and Hebrew words

· Goodrick-Kohlenberger numbers in the dictionary indexes give you access to the growing library of reference tools that use these numbers—another unique feature

· The most up-to-date Hebrew and Greek dictionaries ensure precise meaning in your word studies

· Nave’s Topical Bible Reference System supplies the complete descriptive content and references (without the Bible text) of Nave’s Topical Bible, expanded to provide a total of more than 100,000 verses indexed by subject, word, phrase, synonym, and example

· Cross-references to places and names used in Bible translations besides the KJV

· Word counts furnish a complete accounting of every word in the Bible

· Fast-Tab locators help you find your place quickly and easily

· Smythe-sewn binding opens fully, lays flat, and lasts longer

· Words of Christ highlighted in red

· Maps

· Clear, easy-to-read type

PLUS: Comprehensive guidance for using The Strongest Strong’s · Major Social Concerns of the Mosaic Covenant · Old Testament Sacrifices · Hebrew Calendar

· Hebrew Feasts and Holy Days · Weights, Lengths, and Measures of the Bible · Kings of the Bible · Harmony of the Gospels · Prophecies of the Messiah Fulfilled in Jesus

· Parables of Jesus · Miracles of Jesus · Chronology of the Bible

About the Author

Dr. James Strong (1822-1894) was formerly president of Troy University and professor of exegetical theology at Drew Theological Seminary.

John R. Kohlenberger III (MA, Western Seminary) is the author or coeditor of more than three dozen biblical reference books and study Bibles, including The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament, NRSV Concordance Unabridged, Greek-English Concordance to the New Testament, Hebrew-English Concordance to the Old Testament, and the award-winning NIV Exhaustive Concordance and NIV Bible Commentary. He has taught at Multnomah Bible College and Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

James A. Swanson (ThM, University of South Africa) a specialist in applying database management to biblical studies, has taught at Multnomah Bible College. He is co-editor with John R. Kohlenberger III on several Old and New Testament language concordances, and author of the Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Hebrew and Aramaic.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 1760 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; Revised edition (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310233437
• ISBN-13: 978-0310233435
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 2.3 inches
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59 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Concordance!, June 11, 2002

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This review is from: The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Hardcover)

BOOK REVIEW:

A concordance is like an index; you look up a word, and it will tell you where that word can be found. For example, if you were to look up Jesus in a biblical concordance, the concordance will give you the passages (e.g. Mt 1:1) where the word can be found.

"The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible" is a really great concordance! In the concordance, you will find many neat things; some of them include

- "A Brief History of the Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Project" in the preface
- An introduction that talks about James Strong and concordances in general; improvements made in this concordance from the previous concordance; and the features of this concordance; and a separate, but with more details than the one included in the features of the concordance included in the introduction, page on the "Features of the Main Concordance".

The book is thick and there are many passages included in the concordance. What I really like about this concordance is that the passages that contain the words of Jesus Christ are highlighted in gray. Also, the concordance has "Nave's Topical Bible Reference System" (without the biblical text).

Other features include:

- "Weights, Lengths adn Measures of the Bible"
- Hebrew-Armaic to English and Greek to English dictionaries
- "Chronology of the Bible"
- Maps
- Indexes to "Major Social Concerns of the Mosaic Covenant", "Old Testament Sacrifices", "Hebrew Calendar", "Hebrew Feasts and Holy Days", "Kings of the Bible", "Harmony of the Gospels", "Prophecies of the Messiah Fulfilled in Jesus", "Parables of Jesus", and "Miracles of Jesus".

The only thing I don't like about the concordance is the pages. The pages are very thin--it seems like they can be wrinkled very easily and the printing from the previous/following pages shows through the page.

Overall, the concordance is very good.

42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best concordance on the market, March 28, 2007

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Arthad - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, Value Price: 21st Century Edition (Hardcover)

The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001. ISBN 0310259088. Please note: the ISBN given is for the REGULAR PRINT version, not the large print.

The concordance is the most basic tool of Bible study, aside from the Bible itself. It has two primary uses: finding verses and doing word studies.

The first use is pretty simple: you know a word or two of a verse but you can't remember where to find it. So you look up the word in the concordance, which lists the most common verses in the Bible which contain that word, and choose the right one. (A concordance which calls itself "exhaustive" lists every single verse in the Bible containing a particular word.)

The second use is more complicated. Let's say you want to know about how the Bible uses the word "song." First, take the concordance and look up the English. Under the headword "song" are three columns: the first with the book and verse number, the second with a brief excerpt from the verse, the third with a four-digit number. It looks something like this:

Ex 15:1 the children of Israel this s unto 7892
Ex 15:2 The Lord is my strength and s, and he is 2176
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Rev 5:9 And they sung a new s, saying, Thou art 5603

And the list goes on. The number stands for the Hebrew or Greek word which was translated by the English word "song." In the back of your concordance are very short Hebrew and Greek dictionaries; if the verse is in the Old Testament, look it up in the Hebrew dictionary; if the verse is in the New Testament, look it up in the Greek one. Using the list above, we find that 7892 is the Hebrew word "shir"; 2176 is the Hebrew word "zimrat"; and 5603 is the Greek word "ode." After you read the definitions, you'll know more about the word "song" as used in the Bible.

Now for this particular concordance, which Zondervan somewhat pompously calls "The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible," by James Strong, LL.D., S.T.D.; Fully Revised and Corrected by John R. Kohlenberger III and James A. Swanson." The windiness of the title and the deplorable pun, however, do not detract from its immense usefulness it includes not only the exhaustive concordance itself, but revised Hebrew and Greek dictionaries, Nave's Topical Bible, and "Additional Features," which include a Hebrew calendar, a Harmony of the Gospels, Messianic Prophecies, a chart of Jesus' parables, and a chronology of Bible events.

The cover says that this concordance is "The only Strong's compiled and verified by computer technology." That's nice, but it probably won't make that much difference to the average user. Be warned: it means what it says about "exhaustive." The "Index of Articles, Conjunctions, Particles, Prepositions, and Pronouns," which immediately follows the main body of the concordance, informs us that the conjunction "and" appears exactly 51,713 times in the KJV. Every single word of the Bible is in this concordance.

A typical entry looks like this:

YOKED (1) [YOKE]
2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally y together with 2086

YOKED is the headword. (1) means that YOKED occurs only one time in the entire KJV. [YOKE] means that the word YOKE is a good word to look up if you're interested in YOKED. Unfortunately I cannot represent in plain text that "unequally y together" is in bold, meaning that a single Greek word (No. 2086) stands for what the KJV renders "unequally yoked together." This excellent practice is followed throughout the concordance: whenever one Greek word is translated by multiple English words, the English words are in bold font. Whenever one English word stands for multiple Greek words, the entry looks like this:

YESTERDAY (9) [DAY]
Ps 90:4 thy sight are but as y when it is past, 865+3117

This Strong's is based on the KJV, or the Authorised Version. Most of the time that won't be a drawback, but every now and then you won't be able to find a verse because the KJV uses some English word common in the seventeenth century but has since passed out of common usage, such as "bullock." The editors of this concordance judiciously preserved the italics with which the KJV translators signified words they inserted which were not in the Greek or Hebrew.

Many reviewers have mentioned the light print and the thin pages. I haven't found it a problem, but my eyes are only about eighteen years old, so I'm probably not the best judge. Incontrovertibly, the print quality is light-years superior to other editions of Strong's which have been photographically reproduced from editions published early in the last century; and so look rather messy. Avoid them! This Strong's is completely new, and so the printing technology is modern. But if the type really is too small for you, I believe there's a large-print edition available. As one reviewer said, the lay-flat binding is exquisite. Zondervan did a great job producing such a bulky book.

This concordance uses James Strong's numbering system, which is over a hundred years old and somewhat obsolete. I really don't think most users will find this a problem. The only people who might find it annoying are those who have studied Hebrew and Greek; and those people use BDB and BDAG (the standard Hebrew and Greek lexicons), not the dictionaries in a concordance!

For those who have no or little knowledge of the Biblical languages, I think this is the best concordance on the market. If you don't like using the KJV, get Zondervan's The Strongest NIV Exhaustive Concordance or The Strongest NASB Exhaustive Concordance; I believe they're very similar to the Strongest Strong's.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easier to use than previous versions!, December 12, 2001

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William Cunningham "Reggie" (Lansdale, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Hardcover)

I purchased this book when it first hit the bookstores and I must say that it is easier to use than the previous Strong's Concordances. The definitions are much easier to understand than the the "New Strong's Exahustive Concordance." I love it. I am purchasing one for a Pastor friend of mine. I must admit that the book seems more fragile than the previous version and it is smaller. Every Christian should have one of these.