James Strong (theologian)

James Strong ( born August 14, 1822 in New York City; † August 7, 1894 in Round Lake, Saratoga County) was an American Methodist theologian. He wrote the Strong's Concordance ( Strong's Concordance ). He was from 1858 to 1861 Professor of Biblical Literature at Troy University and in 1868 professor of Biblical exegesis at Drew Theological Seminary.

His most famous work is Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, first published in 1890 and has since published over and over again, most recently in 2006.

For Strong numbered each word root of the Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) the original text in order to facilitate references. Thus, two dictionaries created ( Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New Testament ) with 8674 Hebrew and Greek word roots 5523. This system has been adopted later by many other authors.

Each entry in Strong's dictionaries brief etymology, grammar, and different meanings. There are also German translations from Strong's dictionaries.

These dictionaries were the basis for the Bible concordance, which he developed. In the Strong Concordance numbers are also used. This work has become known as Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. With the help of these books you can study the word meanings in the biblical original texts, without in-depth knowledge to be had in the original languages ​​of the Bible.