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i don't want to turn this into a religiou debate, but after googling some more re concordances
the idea seems to be that the concordance is a list of important stuff + a cross reference to where name A actually = name B ?
Different concordances make different choices as to what is important
its not clear ( to me yet) if the concordances are typically produced by the folks who also masterminded that bible edition / translation, or if they get added much later.
so we have e.g. the famous A.V. / King James bible , commissioned of course by King James in 1603, finished ~50 years later, but I don't recall him commissioning a matching concordance at the time ?
seems that a later concordance could introduce an "editors" take on what's "important", and so someone who simply want to self-study the bible ( having negotiated the minefield of what edition to go with ) is arguably better of with machine generated, neutral search results for where words / phrases occur
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