The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Red-Letter Edition)

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Summary: The Power of Strong's with the Insight of Vine
Review: Finally, a Strong's concordance with the insight of Vine's dictionary.

Strong's has long been recognized as THE concordance for the KJV. One of the most critical and highly criticized area of Strong's is the Greek and Hebrew dictionaries. Some have felt that these dictionaries can sometimes lead the reader to a false conclusion that these definitions are the only meaning to the words defined.

Now with Vine's insights added to many of the Words, this complaint is lessened. Even before this edition of Strong's, many got by with the definitions that were found in the dictionaries.

Now with the insights of Vine's dictionary, these definitions are more accurate and should give one added information and better clarification for many words found in the Bible.

Highly recommended.

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Summary: Strongs is ok for KJV, which without makes no sense!!!
Review: In studying the Bible, especial the horribly translated KJV, one needs help to understand what is really being said. I belive that the Strongs concordance is a wonderful helper when looking for hard to find verses, or when you seriously decide to study the bible, want to know and understand the language behind it. Hebrew is a language that cannot be fully translated into english because every word either comes from another root word or is closly related to some other word. For example, the Divine name YHVH has been said to mean " Self existant one". The superficial definition of it in the strongs give it that meaning as well, but with a little determination one can use this book to discover that it doesnt mean that at all. Hava, or HVH in hebrew, means to breath and/or to become. YHVH then means He is causing breath. However, if you digg even deeper you will see that YHVH also has within it AVAH which means to desire, or wish for, showing Gods ability to simply desire a thing to be. So with all this we can see that YHVH means He who causes to breath, or He who causes to become through breathing, or even He who manifests his desires through breath. Of course, breath being a symbol of life and the actual meaning of Spirit, Ruach, Breath, and not some Phantasmic force, but Gods own voice is creating. Compare with Genesis Ch1:2 and Gods breath moved upon the face of the waters,3 And God said... The strongs concordance can help a person see the true picture instead of the horrible translation of 16th century so-called scholars.