Which Strong's concordance to use?

[Jerry]

I remember the first time I saw and took a look at a Strong’s (or whatever it’s specific name was) Concordance for the NIV. I was dismayed to find that it actually gave other numbers and underlying words for English words that differed in modern versions (ie. they give definitions based on other texts - Westcott/Hort, Nestle, etc.) - no surprise there, but definitely a tool to sow confusion. At least when I was initially researching the Bible version issue and comparing passages in different versions I could see how the underlying text of the King James Bible matched the words that were being defined (in other words, my Strong’s Concordance strengthened my faith in the preserved Word of God), and the modern versions were shown to be entirely different in many places (not just using different modern words to teach the same things).

Things that are different are not the same - as they saying goes.

[Tyndale]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2010 at 8:29 AM, nucreature said:

I have been noticing the new "Strongest Strong's Concordance" for the 21st Century. I looked to see that Zondervan published it. .

As I understand it, the Strongest Strong's Concordance uses as its KJV text the 1873 Cambridge edition edited by Scrivener while most other Strong's Concordance editions use a late 1880's to 1900 edition of the KJV (I forget the exact year of that edition).  Thus, there are a few differences in the KJV text since the 1873 Cambridge went back to several renderings in the 1611 edition.

[Tyndale]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2010 at 8:29 AM, nucreature said:

I have been noticing the new "Strongest Strong's Concordance" for the 21st Century.

Perhaps one difference between Strongest Strong's Concordance for the KJV and other Strong's Concordances for the KJV may be in cases where words are added for which there was no original-language word of Scripture.   The Strongest Strong's Concordance will identify those added words with NIH [Not in Hebrew] or NIG [Not in Greek] in place of giving a Strong's number for an original-language word instead of leaving a blank.