Strong's Concordance

After years of using this app, I am being forced to delete it because of the full-page persistent advertising. I can easily accept banner ads on the bottom of the screen, but the fullpage ads lock up the screen. By the time I can delete the ad, the speaker in church has gone on to a different passage. Also,some of the full-page ads presented are totally inappropriate to be seen in a church setting where people sitting next you can see. I hope the authors will reconsider their questionable business practice.

I give five stars to the ease of finding passages with the Strong # embedded into the text. Click on the # and the definition comes up, close the definition and the text remains so one can continue reading or search for another passage. But to search for a specific word in a book only rates one star at best. One cannot search individual books of the Bible, but can search groups of books, such as gospels or Paul’s epistles. Two problems. 1. The search will bring up words within words. Search for “age” and message, marriage, bondage, advantage, etc. will be highlighted. 2. If one chooses one verse to find the definition of the word being searched for, and taps on that word in that verse, you are taken to another page where the definition can be accessed. But there’s no way to return to the word search to check definitions in other verses. Also, the definitions of words are often confusing and difficult to understand. Apparently, the definitions used are from the original Strong’s Concordance. It’s unfortunate that the newer definitions used in the latest Strong’s concordance, which is called the Strongest Strong’s, were not used instead of the original. They are much clearer and easier to understand.

The Strong’s Concordance is an essential resource for understanding the Bible. Far too many Christians take Bible translations at face value, even though they know that the Bible was translated by a human. When people translate the Bible, they do so by giving their own interpretation. That doesn’t mean that they are wrong. What it does mean is that because there are so many ways to translate the ancient languages of the Bible into English, translators will transcribe what the Bible says in the way that they think best represents what the Bible says. But the truth is, no reader, of any translation can be absolutely confident in the representation that the translators provide. Especially as so many translators only represent the Bible as how their denomination wants you to understand it. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for each reader to study the Bible from the original language as presented in the strong concordance. I would say it is even highly irresponsible on the part of the reader to not see what the Bible says for themselves in it’s original language. One cannot simply leave to chance what the God had spoken by trusting what someone else has transcribed. It is for this reason that so much of the Christian Church is Biblically illiterate or misguided. The Strong’s Concordance is your portal into understanding what God originally said in scripture. It is an invaluable resource and should not be neglected. I have used it for decades and I can’t tell you how often I’ve been blown away by what God has revealed to me in it and also by how many Bible teachers fail to understand the Bible correctly.