Strong's concordance

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Strong's Concordance is a concordance of the King James Bible (KJV) that was constructed under the direction of Dr. James Strong (1822-1894). Dr. Strong was Professor of exegetical theology at Drew Theological Seminary at the time. It is an exhaustive cross-reference of every word in the KJV back to the word in the original text. It included:

The 8674 Hebrew root words used in the Old Testament. (Example: Hebrew word #582 in Strong's)
The 5523 Greek root words used in the New Testament. (Example: Greek word #3056 in Strong's)

Despite the common misconception to the contrary, James Strong did not construct the Strongs Concordance by himself, it was constructed with the effort of more than a hundred colleagues. It was assembled without the use of computers, or other electronic devices and has become the most widely used concordance ever constructed for the King James Bible (KJV).

Each original language word is given an entry number in the dictionary of those original language words listed in the back of the concordance. These have become known as the "Strong's numbers". The main concordance will list each word that appears in the KJV Bible in alphabetical order with each verse in which it appears listed in order of its appearance in the Bible, with a snippet of the surrounding text (including the word in italics). Appearing to the right of scripture reference is the Strong's number. This allows the user of the concordance to look up the meaning of the original language word in the associated dictionary in the back, thereby showing how the original language word was translated into the English word in the KJV Bible.

Although the Greek words in Strong's Concordance are numbered 1-5624, this number is misleading, as at least numbers 3203-3302 are unassigned. It should also be noted that not every distinct word is assigned a number; rather, only are basic root words. For example, αγαπησεις is assigned the same number as αγαπατε--both are listed as Greek word #25 in Strong's "αγαπαω".