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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yes, and I still think that, mostly. Is a concordance for a Bible, perhaps, viewed a bit differently than for your basic book?? Or..? (Not an expert in Biblical bookmaking. I know the layout and basic use, bor Bibles, but unless I'm losing what's left of my noggin, I'm pretty sure most concordances that I've worked on, for both regular but also, legal docs/books, over the years, are pretty much just...just what they sound like, an alpha collection of words and instances???)
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more googling ( before the thread is over-run with floppy disc reminiscences) tells me that the whole bible concordance thing has had everything including the kitchen sink thrown at it. All the words therein have been counted, and numbered ( by someone called Strong) hence the Strong concordance...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%27s_Concordance
and google is awash with answers to what is the last word [amen], the shortest verse [Jesus wept} and the answer to every trivia question that you could dream up...
I am not seeing any corroboration for " concordance contains [only] the " important" stuff - it does seem to contain everything, but with some human assistance to separate multiple use words like bear ( verb) vs bear ( animal) which a dump indexer would not pick up. Maybe I was wrong to suggest a concordance maker could add bias.
ok - back to the far more interesting debates on which side should your floppy disc be buttered, how many floppy discs does it take to store a bible , with or without a concordance, etc.