The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible : Classic Edition

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Summary: Classic and indispensable
Review: Unless you read Hebrew and Greek every version of the Bible is just a translation which is very imprecise at times but with this book you can help bridge that gap. It's a classic and indispensable for doing word studies because you can see how each word is used throughout the Bible and find synonyms that sometimes make a world of difference when trying to understand a certain verse or phrase. Granted it is much faster to use an appropriate software package but if you'd like to unchain yourself from the computer (horrors!) and get mobile with your studies for a very small price, you can't do without this. -- Moza

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Summary: after 9-11
Review: We all have our stories of how 9-11 has impacted us. One of the things I did in the week following that event was to order this book. I was surprised at its physical heft, since I had been using a slim concordance which seemed to suit all practical purposes. As I looked through it, I was delighted with its intellectual heft as well. This book is a wonderful addition to the library of anyone who is interested in gaining in-depth knowledge of the Bible, the body of writing which conveys the Judeo-Christian tradition.

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Summary: An Excellent Concordacnce!
Review: Well I must say I was real impress with the organization of the information and material in this book.
Regarding new and old editions:
I must caution you that Amazon. com has 2 editions of this book and they are both listed under the same editorial and customer reviews which could confuse you and have you buying the wrong edition. Let me spell out the difference here. The New Stong's Exhaustive Concordance Limited, Deluxe Edition is an old edition. If you want the modern edition of this same book it's listed under amazon.com as The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible: Classic Edition. The difference that I see is that the older version is listed as Deluxe Edition and the New version as Classical Edition. Another way of telling the difference between the 2 editions is by looking at the picture of the book if one is provided. The newer edition is light brown w/ a little red and looks modern while the older edition is just a reddish color w/ Gold color writing. The new addition is more like a revised copy of the old one.

Regarding the content of book:
This concordance is based on the King James Version bible but also has modern words used in other english version bibles as well but it is more for the King James version to my opinion. This book is excellent because it has every word listed along w/ all of their occurrences in the bible and the Hebrew and Greek words they comes from. We all know that some words can have more than one meaning and one can only determine which meaning a word is implyinh by looking at the context the word is in. This book already acknowledges this by already providing the correct definition of each word in it's context. This book has a Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek dictionary, all Laws are listed, scales and weights listed, an outline of Christ's life and works, a topical index, Strong's number system, and a few more items.

There is a comment about this book that I've seen that some of Greek definitions in this book are based more on Classical Greek than Koine. (Koine: Greek dialect spoken during New Testament times and would be more likely used by the New Testament writers.) Other than that this book is excellent and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to enrich their knowledge of the bible.