Strongs Concordance: Why do you seem to discourage Believers from using Strongs Concordance?
We discourage Believers from using Strongs Concordance because Strongs Concordance is an incomplete resource. First of all, the Strongs Concordance Hebrew and Greek dictionary is an abbreviated dictionary, and does not include detailed usages of words in various Biblical contexts. Secondly, its English concordance is limited to the King James Version of the Bible (or other versions depending on the edition), and can be easily replaced by employing Bible software that will do extensive text searches in any version. Thirdly, for a Messianic movement that desperately needs to improve its scholastic abilities, it must be emphasized that Strongs Concordance is not used in academic circles. Strongs Concordance was compiled to be a lay resource, for those with little or no knowledge of Biblical languages or how to search the Scriptures. It was put together to give the layperson a taste of these things, but by no means be the final source. One of the extreme problems that exist among Bible stu
