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The New Strong's Complete Dictionary of Bible Words

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My heartfelt approval goes to this review of marvelous work done by James Strong. I saw somebody's review of this excellent book and it got a single star. I have been studying the bible daily with this book. There are actually no problems for me, I give it five stars. Because if this book is used in the proper way, in fact it will contribute greatly to your understanding of the bible. It would be unwise to depreciate this excellent work. However, you have to be patient at first, it requires some of your patience to understand the working of this book.

My heartfelt approval goes to this review of marvelous work done by James Strong. I saw somebody's review of this excellent book and it got a single star. I have been studying the bible daily with this book. There are actually no problems for me, I give it five stars. Because if this book is used in the proper way, in fact it will contribute greatly to your understanding of the bible. It would be unwise to depreciate this excellent work. However, you have to be patient at first, it requires some of your patience to understand the working of this book.

Finally, Strong's Greek and Hebrew dictionaries are available as a separate volume for the serious student of God's word. You can look up a word in an index and then find the word in the dictionaries--all without the added weight of a full-blown Strong's. Oh the joy...oh the rapture. (Excuse me, I got a little carried away...)

This delightful tome is highly recommended!

This book is not for everyone that's for sure. It seems to have an exhaustive list of words that it covers but it doesn't give you any details of their meanings. Although it very briefly, and I do mean breifly, defines a few words it seems to be more of a thesaurus than anything else. Also there are no graphics at all. Not so much as a drawing. So if you want more than wham bam thank you mam then look elsewhere. Other than that. Go ahead and have fun. Knock yourself out.

This publication distills the linguistic essence of the famous exhaustive word concordance of James Strong, listing English words in the Authorised "King James" Version of the Bible (A.V.), but, alas, without so indexing and analysing the vocabulary of the A.V. version's Apocrypha (i.e., the deuterocanonical writings of the Old Testament). The A.V.'s English words appear alphabetically arranged in the first section. In second and third sections (for, respectively, the Old Testament and the New Testament) the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words which the A.V. translated are arrayed numerically by the numbers which Strong assigned to them in his concordance, with Strong's lexical definitions, analyses, and comments.

The purpose of this publication, in extracting data from Strong's complete concordance as it does, is fairly well summed up in saying that it presents Strong's lexical and linguistic information and insights (both regarding the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek languages and the English of the translators of the Authorised "King James" Version) apart from all the finding and collocation functions of Strong's full concordance. The book makes a good Strong-lexical supplement even to use with other concordances, whether of the A.V. or of other translations, as well as to use with Strong's own concordance of the A.V. Bible. (The other standard analytical concordance to the A.V. Bible is, of course, Robert Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible, and a fine one to another and, for better and for worse, modern translation is Richard E. Whittaker's The Eerdmans Analytical Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.) The paper jacket that enfolds the publication under review here, however, gives a misleading impression of what the book does, which may have aroused hopes in some of its purchasers that use of the book itself dashed, accounting for certain of the negative comments in some other Amazon users' reviews.

There has been an "expanded" edition of this work, published by T. Nelson in 2001, but, for the most part, its differences derive from also incorporating much (but by no means all) of the information in W. E. Vine's own expository dictionary of Bible vocabulary. The buyer can obtain the original edition of this book based on Strong's work more cheaply, which a serious student of the Holy Scriptures should have in tandem with Vine's own expository dictionary in one of the better and more complete editions of it.

This lexical tool, in this original form or as "expanded" in the 2001 edition, has somewhat limited utility for the average Bible reader, taken on its own, but it does make for a powerful tool when used with certain reference Bibles that are keyed numerically to Strong. One such, keying to Strong's system what are deemed to be the most important words, is the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible by Spiros Zodhiates (or Zodiates, as the surname sometimes is spelled), which is available (either for the "complete" Protestant Bible, hence without the O.T.'s deuterocanonical writings, or for the New Testament alone) in editions based on a the choice of the A.V. or the New American Standard Version translations, both of which are sufficiently literal translations (the A.V. in Tudor period English, the N.A.S.V. in current English), to be of maximum use in undertaking word studies. However, when choosing an edition of Zodhiates' study Bible, one should bear in mind that the A.V. Bible is based on a superior ("Byzantine") Greek text for the N.T., while the deficient and defective underlying Greek of the N.A.S.V.'s N.T. is a form of the so-called "Critical Text", with all of its trendy but misleading corruptions which appeal so much to modern but sadly misled scholars.

Hendrickson is a publishing house which offers a complete Hebrew-Greek-English Bible in which every single word in the original languages is keyed to Strong's numbers, with two English translations included together, one interlinearly, the other printed aside. Jay P. Green is the editor of this, and it is available in one large single volume or in sets divided into 3 or 4 volumes. One caution is that it is hard to follow the Hebrew O.T. in such an edition, since, of course, Hebrew writing is backwards to what one is accustomed in English, which can make the Hebrew awkward, even downright bewildering, to follow.

Green's is even more helpful and exhaustive than Zodiates' study Bible, but the latter is easier to handle physically and is usually sufficient for most needs, though it is nice to have both; in choosing between them, the buyer should decide whether he wants the Strong numbers keyed directly to English words or/and keyed to the words in the original languages with interlinear English directly below.

The numerical sections for Hebrew-Aramaic and for Greek words at the back of Zodhiates' and Green's word study Bibles are very compactly printed, hence less easy to read than in the publication under review, and, of course, as they appear in Zodhiates' and Green's publications, they do not benefit from the additional editing of them as available in the product from Thomas Nelson Publishers, under review here.

A serious student, whether a layman or an ordained cleric, will want to have every one of the items reviewed or mentioned above. Although all of the authors and editors of these works are Protestants or sectaries, their theological and exegetical stances do not affect too unduly their work in the area of texts and translations, although the buyer of Catholic or Eastern Orthodox persuasion should bear in mind the allegiances of these scholars to their respective theological, exegetical, and/or Millennialist partisanships. A reader whose interest in matters of text and translation is minimal, however, will find that a good edition of Strong's or Young's analytical concordances themselves will meet his needs more satisfactorily.

Well to those who think that the words Rapture or Trinity are in the bible, they probbably don't want to buy this book, because they are not in the bible in the original texts.

But the most important name in the bible appears in this work... namely that of Jehovah. He is the one to whom spoke to Abraham. He is Jesus father, and oh yes his name is in the original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic; nearly seven thousand times. I have included some prime examples of why this work is so good: on page 385 it says the divine name in Hebrew:

Entry: 3068 Yehovah yeh-ho-vaw'; from 1961;(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:-- Jehovah, the Lord. Comp. 3050, 3069.

Entry: 3069 Yehovih, yeh-ho-vee'; a var. of 3068 [used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as 430 in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce 3068 as 136]:-God.

And the entries of 3070, 3071, 3072, 3073, and 3074 (to see what they are you'll have to buy the book.) in which in each instance God's name is correctly translated. Oh... they didn't speak Latin in Bible times. That came only much later after the first council of Nicea. {This period in between these times is commonly known as the "DARK AGES" and aptly so.} And by that time much corruption had set into people who professed to revere the Bible. And most educated people realize that by the time Martin Luther came upon the seen... just owning the bible was punishable by death. Furthermore he translated a bible into the people's language himself, in order to help people to get to know the truth about the bible.


This work by strong is almost as important, if you are studying the bible closely the truth's contained in the bible are truely evident. Although in honesty this book may be over the heads of some beginners, in which group I consider myself to be only a beginner. And I've studied the bible for 28 years. But just for some of the other beginners who want to know the truth look up Exodus 6:3, Psalms 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; and Isaiah 26:4, and if you have a bible version which doesn't have the divine name there... you should ask yourself why has it been REMOVED?


But not to sway anyone personal belief's one way or another, I've spent 5 hours already looking thru this book and find it absolutely incrediable. It is as if God speaks directly to you with no brainwashing if you have this book. On my scale of 1-10 this book if used correctly ranks 777.

this is a outstanding reference book to have in your spiritual library. now i can understand my bible a lot more since i have this book thanks

The original works of James Strong are excellent, however in the case of some of these newer books where Dr. Strong's work has been "corrected" are not so good. Corrected means shot full of errors. For example, I understand that many believe in the rapture, however the word rapture does not exist in the Bible, it is a work of man. I was so disappointed to see references to rapture in a bible dictionary because belief in the rapture alters the entire understanding of the New Testament. If I were given the option I would have given it a 0.

The contents of this book is based on the KJV Bible. It is at best, an abridged dictionary. For a SERIOUS bible scholar, this book is useless. This book was given 1 star because there isn't a 0 star rating. Received and returned same day.

Arrived when stated, it was everything that the ad said it was going to be.