Strong's Concordance

Priscilla Ann, I use a Strong's even though I usually study from versions that are not King James (though I do use a NKJV). The only way it doesn't work is when the word you are looking up is translated differently in the King James than the Bible you are using. In most cases, it works okay. There are variations but it's still a good tool.

Do you know about the online resources? Go to Bible Gateway at
http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible

and Crosswalk at
http://bible.crosswalk.com/

where you can look up words or phrases in various versions.

 

Priscilla Ann - There are Concordances for different translations of the Bible (although there are certainly not concordances for many of them).

For example, Zondervan makes an NIV concordance.

Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible would work best with Young's translation.

The Strongest NASB Exhaustive Concordance would work with NASB

Checking Amazon and searching for Concordance turned up 11027 matches (which included Stephen King's Dark Tower ? ? ? ? ? )

You might do an amazon search for your translation plus the word concordance.

Install e-sword and you can get a digital copy of Strong's Concordance with KJV for free! No, it doesn't beat a book in the hand, but it is handy!

http://e-sword.net

 

Well, I've only been a believer for 13 yrs. and was saved at a very "mature" age. Although I went to various churches growing up (including a generic Protestant service overseas), I was not in a Christian family and I did not know the Bible. I still feel like a baby Christian sometimes, too. I've had to learn a lot to catch up!

I know what you mean about having a book in your hand vs. the computer. I do a lot of searches for passages online, but sometimes I use the Strong's because you can run down the whole list of passages with that particular word pretty quickly.

 

e-sword is great. My huge paper strong's is gathering dust on the shelf because of the KJV w/strongs numbers version available in e-sword.

 

Truthfully, I prefer Young's to Strong. Strong's shows you where all the english words were used with various Greek/Hebrew nuances. Young's shows the word, it's particular Greek or Hebrew, then wherever that particular original word is used throughout the Bible. Young's is more helpful in that way.

 

Oh, and for a computer study tool, they don't get any better or cheaper than Online Bible. I'll post the website later.

 

I will sometimes use the KJV too along with my translation in case I need to look up a word that is different, I can see what my word is in the KJV and look that up. They mean the same thing in bibnlical context.