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[DeadToSelf]

Hi all,

Well I just wanted some insight on what you guys/gals thought and stuff.

Well the Key Word Study Bible and Strong's Concordance go hand and hand, from what I've read, but I have never looked into a Key Word Study Bible and I have only skimmed through a Strong's Concordance.

How do you use the books? Do what's with the number system and how does it all work out?

Thanks.

[markedward]

My mother owns a (very large) Strong's Concordance, and the few times I've used it, it worked pretty well. But fortunately, I much prefer the use of Lexicons; Concordances are good for telling me where a word is, but Lexicons are good for telling me what a word is in its original language, and what its definitions are (pretty much a dictionary for a foreign language). And, fortunately, online Lexicons take up both the tasks of regular Lexicons and Concordances.

I regularly use these two Lexicons, but occasionally consult other ones on the 'net if I feel it necessary. The two Lexicons I linked to (one Hebrew, one Greek) give you a great deal of information. Both of them:

• Give the option of looking up a word in the Bible by English or Hebrew/Greek or Strong's number
• Find the closest matches and lists them (or offers a list of closest matches if you misspelled something - or if it thinks you did)
• Gives the option of looking up your selected word (whether English/Greek/Hebrew/Strong's number) according to either the KJV or the NASB.
• Shows multiple definitions for the chosen word
• Shows how it is spelled in its own alphabet (the website provides the Hebrew and Greek fonts in case you don't have them already)
• Shows how it is spelled in English (transliteration)
• Shows how to pronounce it (using English phonetics)
• Provides an audio pronunciation
• Provides whether it is a masculine, feminine or neutral word
• Provides whether it is a noun, adjective, verb, etc.
• Provides the root words (etymology)
• Provides how many times the word is used in the Bible and how many times it is translated in such a way, depending on the version you selected (e.g., debeq is found 3 times in the OT, translated in the KJV as "joint" twice and "sodering" once)
• Provides links to every book, chapter and verse that the word is used in, and highlights it in bold in that verse

It's a pretty powerful study tool.

[Chimon]

The problem I have with Strong's is that it is keyed to the KJV, which is an inferior translation (in terms of faithfulness to the critical text.) I used the NASB Strongest Concordance for a while, which is much better, however, I think you can get much more bang for your buck with software study tools now. I recommend Logos or BibleWorks.