Strong's number frequency

The Old Testament was written primarily in Hebrew, while the New Testament was written in Greek. In 1890, Professor James Strong compiled "The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible" based on the original-language texts of the King James Version. He assigned a unique numerical index—an H/G prefix with a 4-digit number— to each original-language word. This system is now known as "Strong’s Number (SN)".

The SN allows for easy lookup of individual words in the original languages, which is particularly useful for word studies.

We are providing the Berean Study Bible (BSB), Christian Standard Bible (CSB), King James Version (KJV), Chinese Union Version (CUV), and a special edition of the Septuagint with GNT (LXX+WH), all with SN.

Search engines would offer more advanced search capabilities than a printed concordance. With the Strong's numbers, one can readily generate a comprehensive, exhaustive concordance for any original word or phrase, facilitating in-depth study of how that word is used throughout the Bible. With LXX-WH, you can use a New Testament Greek word to bridge to the Greek Septuagint and study its usage in the Old Testament.

Two Query Systems

In addition to standard word studies, we provide two powerful tools for generating frequency lists, allowing you to analyze the occurrence of original-language words within any specified range of text. For example, you can:

Firstly, Single Word Query: this can generate a frequency list of words used in any book of the Bible, broken down by chapter (e.g., a chapter-by-chapter frequency list for the entire Gospel of Matthew). You can also generate a frequency list for any specific portion of a book by defining a range of chapters and verses.

A second query system, Word Family Query: this allows searches based on word roots and related word families, as well as synonyms (following R. C. Trench’s "Synonyms of the New Testament"), to produce frequency lists for entire word families within a book.

Both query tools offer extensive customization options, such as comparing data across up to ten other books or groups of books, filtering by part of speech, and applying custom background highlighting.

The results of both queries can be exported as Excel spreadsheets, allowing you to utilize the powerful features of Excel—such as sorting and filtering data—to suit your specific research needs. Such statistics of word-frequency lists are highly useful for identifying keywords, frequently used terms, or key concepts within any given passage. They are especially valuable for studying the themes of an entire book or chapter.

Source Texts

For these word-frequency lists, we have drawn directly from the original-language source texts:

Old Testament:

• The Leningrad Codex (LC) : The oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (c. 1008 AD).
• The Greek Septuagint (LXX): The Scripture in Greek used at the time of Jesus and the early church.

New Testament:

• Westcott & Hort (WH, 1881): Aligns historically with the era of Strong’s Concordance and the Chinese Union Version (CUV).
• SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT, 2010): A modern critical text edited by Michael W. Holmes in partnership with Logos Bible Software and the Society of Biblical Literature, incorporating recent manuscript researches.

Let the vocabulary, word choices and the frequency of word usage by the biblical authors speak for themselves.

May Yahweh, the Creator of heaven and earth, grant you greater insight and joy as you study His Word.