James Strong (August 14, 1822 - August 7, 1894) was an American Methodist Bible student and educator, and creator of Strong's Concordance.
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Biography
Strong was born in New York City and graduated, in 1844, as a farewell speech from Wesleyan University. Furthermore, he is the mayor of his hometown of Long Island. Later, after settling in Flushing, New York, he pursued Bible studies, held local offices, and organized, built, and became president of the Flushing railway. In 1856 Wesleyan University gave him the title of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.). From 1858 to 1861, Strong was Acting President and Professor of Biblical Literature at Troy University (New York). In 1868 he became Professor of Exegetical Theology at Drew Theological Seminary, where he remained for twenty-seven years. In 1881 Wesleyan honored Strong with his Doctor of Laws (LL.D.). He died in Round Lake, New York in 1894.
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Concordance
His most famous work is the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, first published in 1890, where a new edition is still printed. Many revisions, such as the Strong Strong Concordance of the Bible and New Strong Strong's Concordance of the Bible , together with the concordance adaptation to a translation other than the James Version's Authorized King while retaining the branding "Strong" or similar, such as Strongest Neh Exhaustive Concordance is also available. Strong's numbering of Greek and Hebrew words has dominated the calculation of such words in Bible study aid to this day, recently coupled with the numbering of Goodrick-Kohlenberger.
For concordance, Strong is given the number of every Hebrew or Greek foundation found, for ease of reference. This numbering system (8674 Hebrew roots and 5523 Greek roots) is now widely used in the English-speaking world and is also widely available on the web, where it can be used with many translations, often along with other hermeneutic tools. Regardless of Greek roots numbered up to 5523, there are only about 5415 actual entries, as more than 100 numbers are skipped. At the end of the Greek Dictionary of the New Testament section of the first edition of the Concordance is the following Note: "Due to changes in the enumeration as it progresses, there are no words left for No. 2717 and 3203-3302, which are therefore secretly excluded from vocabulary and references as redundant.There will be no practical errors or inconveniences. "
Furthermore, note that the modern Old Testament lexical system often separates entries on Aramaic words from the Hebrew words, a practice initiated by the Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (an English work based on Gesenius 'Hebrew Grammar in German), commonly called "Brown-Driver-Briggs" or "BDB" after the three main authors.
Other works
The other major contributions are to Cyclopaedia from Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (10 vols, 1867-81, supplements, 2 vols, 1885-7). Working on this project after beginning in 1853, Strong is in charge of the literary department of the Bible, while John McClintock oversees theological and eccritical literature for the preparation of the first few volumes. However, with Dr. McClintock in 1870, Strong became the project's supervisory editor, and with the help of J. H. Worman saw the project through.
Mr. Strong was invited by Dr. Philip Schaff to join the Old Testament Company of the American Revised Version of the Bible committee, and work within the company in preparing the English language and finally the revised American Bible Version, which came to be known as the American Standard Version 1901. The American Revision Committee began work in 1871 and continued to work until 1901. The leading experts of the day who worked on these two translations with Mr. Strong included FHA Scrivener (who also edited the AV to form the first Cambridge Paragraph Bible and the recension of AV is considered as authoritative text), Princeton theologian Charles Hodge, Philip Schaff, FJA Hort and BF Westcott (Westcott and Hort of repute), W.L. Alexander, A.B. Davidson, S.R. The driver, Joseph Lightfoot, Samuel Wilberforce, Henry Alford, S.P. Tregelles, J. Henry Thayer, and Ezra Abbot. Overall, one hundred and one scholars on both sides of the Atlantic are working on this historic revision. The sources for this paragraph are from Revised New Testament and Revision History, Official Version 1881. Hubbard Brothers, Publisher; and The Ancestry of Our English Bible, by Ira Maurice Price, Harper and Brothers, Third Revised Edition, 1956. The first of these books asserts that Mr. Strong graduated from Wesleyan University in 1844, in his short biography of him.
Among others, some of his lesser works are "A New Harmony and Exposition of the Gospels" (1852); "The history of Scripture is outlined from the Bible Records and all Accessible Resources" (1878) and "Israelite Tabernacle in the Desert" (1888).
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External links
- James Strong's work in Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about James Strong in the Internet Archive
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