If you are using a Strong’s Concordance, try to discover the Greek word behind the English word for ‘loved’.Cite and summarize your top three references. With your concordance open to ‘loved’, use the Find Helpful Cross References method to write down a few references to look up.Does John use the same word anywhere else in his book? If so, write down 3 references where he uses the same word in a similar way.Does the word ‘loved’ appear anywhere else in chapter three of John? If so, where? Does he use it in the same way?.Use the Find a Verse method to locate the verse that contains this phase. Let’s say you are looking for the verse that says “… God so loved the world…” but you don’t know where it is in the Bible.Write out the definition of the word and then paraphrase the definition in your own words. Find the word in the Hebrew or Greek dictionary at the back of the concordance, using the Strong’s number. Note the number for your particular word.ģ. Regular type indicates a Hebrew word (Old Testament) and italic type indicates a Greek word (New Testament). Next to the reference for each passage is a number, called a Strong’s Number. Once you find the word, you will see a list of Old and New Testament passages in which the word can be found. Find the word that you want to research from your passage of scripture in the front part of the concordance, much like using a dictionary.Ģ. 5:8 – God’s love for lost people Discover the Greek or Hebrew Wordġ. In your Bible, look up each reference and cite and summarize* the most helpful references.įor example, if you chose Romans 5:8 which talks about God’s love for lost people you would write: Scan through the list of verses and write down any references that look helpful.ģ. Look up a word you want to find other references for in the concordance.Ģ. Scan through the list of verses until you find the verse.ġ.
Look up the word you are looking for in the concordance.Ģ.
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HOW to use a Bible Concordance: Find a Verseġ. New King James Version Concordance (1992).The NIV Exhaustive Bible Concordance (2015).
There are many concordances for the modern translations and versions of the Bible. Behind this one are Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Cruden’s Complete Concordance. Most Commonīy far the most common Bible concordance is Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance for the KJV (King James Version). For that reason it is favored by pastors and scholars who are familiar with the original languages. After the organizing the English words alphabetically the words are then organized by Greek or Hebrew word from which it is translated. An analytical concordance adds an extra step in organization. All other concordances organize the content according to the alphabetical order of the English word and then by its appearance in the Bible. An analytical concordance is similar to a complete concordance in what it covers but organizes the content differently. The last kind of concordance is an analytical concordance, such as Young’s Analytical Concordance. A concise concordance will give selective references to selective words. The third kind of concordance is a concise concordance, the kind you can find in the back of many Bibles. A complete concordance will not have the ‘the’ and ‘an’ references but will typically give all the references to the main words you might want to look up. Second, a concordance may be called complete, like Cruden’s Complete Concordance for example. An exhaustive concordance covers every single word in the English bible (including ‘the’ and ‘an’!). What kinds of Bible Concordances are there? Four kinds of Bible Concordancesįirst, a concordance may be called exhaustive, such as the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance. To discover and define the original root Greek or Hebrew word behind the English translation.To find helpful cross references which contain the same word you are studying.
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