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One of the books that I often employed in my study of the Scriptures was Strong’s Concordance.
This hefty book lists every occurrence of every Hebrew and Greek word in the Bible. In its early
days, it was keyed to the King James Version of the Bible. Now you can find a Strong’s
Concordance keyed to a much wider assortment of Bible translations, including the New King James
Bible, New American Standard Bible, and the New International Version.

When a reader first opens a copy of Strong’s Concordance, understanding how to use it may appear
difficult, but it is actually quite simple with a little coaching. Strong’s Concordance is divided into
two main sections. The first section is the concordance. The second section consists of Hebrew and
Greek dictionaries. Following is a page image from the concordance section.

Suppose you were reading through the King James Bible and you came across the word “sorcerers”
in Revelation 21:8. If you wanted to know what word was used in the original Bible manuscripts you
would look up the word in the concordance where all words found in the KJV Bible are listed
alphabetically. Note in the expanded shot that there are six occurrences of the word “sorcerers in the
KJV Bible. They are listed in the order in which they appear. The concordance provides a snippet
of each verse where the word is found, as well as the book, chapter, and verse reference.

To the far right is a number that identifies the word listing in the Hebrew or Greek dictionary at the
back of the Strong’s Concordance. The Bible student using this reference needs to be aware that the
Hebrew and Greek dictionaries both start with the number 1 and advance from there. If for example
you see the number 5332, as is observed next to the Revelation 21:8 reference above, you would
need to determine if this word is in the Hebrew dictionary, or the Greek dictionary. As long as you
understand that the Old Testament books were written in Hebrew, and the New Testament in Greek,
and you know which books belong to each testament, you should have no problem.

As a child growing up I remember attending children’s church where we were taught a song that
recited all 66 books of Bible in the order in which they appear. Because I was taught this song, I can
still recite the books of the Bible in order to this day. This made it quite easy for me to recognize
which books belonged to the Old Testament, and which ones were in the New Testament. In
children’s church we frequently held Bible drills where the teacher would call out a Bible reference
and the first child who could find the passage in their Bible would stand up and read it. I was very
competitive as a child, and practiced looking up passages in the Bible. Some children had an
advantage by having Bibles with tabs to indicate where the various books of the Bible were, but I