Types of Concordances
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Types of Concordances |
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 You might need a concordance to find the verse: "From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the LORD is to be praised." |
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 "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." Scripture quotations taken from the New American
Standard Bible®, |
| An Exhaustive
Concordance means you are exhausted if you carry it from room to
room because they are so big. Exhaustive also means that it lists
every reference to every word. This is the type to get.
A Complete Concordance does not list every word in the Bible, but for those it does list, it gives all the verses containing that word. I do not recommend complete concordances because Murphy's Law of Complete Concordances is that the words you want to find are the word they left out. If you use the New Living Translation, Life Application Bible, the exhaustive concordance for the NLT is called the NLT Complete Concordance, but it lacks Strong's numbering. A Handy, Concise, Compact, Pocket, or Wimpy Concordance does not list every word and does not list every verse using the words it does list. (There are no wimpy concordances, I just made that up.) Study Bibles typically have what amounts to a concise concordance in the back. But even the best of these are still wimpy. |
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