The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

Summary

We are looking at a classic exhaustive concordance in the Strong tradition, built to help us locate every occurrence of words across the Bible and to connect English terms with underlying Hebrew and Greek through a numbering system.

Its enduring usefulness is simple, it makes the Bible searchable for those without formal language training. That can serve pastors well when we are checking usage, tracing repeated vocabulary, or verifying whether a phrase appears elsewhere as we remember it.

At the same time, an exhaustive concordance can be misused. Word study becomes dangerous when it detaches words from sentences. This tool helps us find places to read, but it cannot tell us what those places mean.

Why Should We Own This Resource?

We should own it if we want a proven indexing system that supports careful checking and wide reading. It can help us avoid lazy citation and strengthen the accuracy of our references, which matters in public ministry.

The strength is comprehensive reach. When we are preparing a sermon and need to confirm a detail, trace a pattern, or find the other occurrences of a key term, it gives us a dependable route into the text.

The limitation is methodological. The numbering system can tempt us to treat dictionaries as authority and to build theology from isolated word glosses. We will need to discipline ourselves to do our interpretation in context, letting the passage, the paragraph, and the book govern what a word contributes.

Closing Recommendation

We can recommend this as a standard reference tool for pastors and students who want an exhaustive index and a familiar word study pathway. Used with restraint, it helps our preaching stay accurate and text tethered.

We should pair it with a good Bible dictionary and careful commentaries, and we should keep our main attention on the flow of the passage. When we do that, this becomes a steady assistant rather than a shortcut.