Strong’s Word Study App

Public Help — Strong’s Word Study

Clark’s Strong’s Reference provides access to the original Hebrew and Greek vocabulary underlying Scripture. It is designed to make original-language information useful even to readers who do not know Hebrew or Greek.

There are two principal ways you may encounter the Strong’s tools on Clark’s Anchored in Christ.

From a Scripture Passage

When a Scripture passage is displayed through Clark’s Scripture Tooltips or the BSB Bible Reader, many individual words can be clicked.

Selecting a word opens its Strong’s Word Study, allowing you to look beneath the English translation and examine the corresponding Hebrew or Greek word.

Depending upon the available information, the study can display such information as the Strong’s number, original Hebrew or Greek word, lemma, transliteration, part of speech, derivation, definition, and BSB rendering.

The BSB Rendering is particularly useful because an English expression does not always correspond neatly to a single original-language word. It helps show how the Hebrew or Greek is actually represented in the BSB passage being examined.

Strong’s Numbers in Articles

Strong’s references appearing in articles can also be interactive. References such as G3466 or H430 can open their corresponding local Strong’s information without sending the reader to another website.

Definitions may themselves contain references to other Strong’s words. These related references can be opened as nested Strong’s studies, allowing you to follow relationships between words without losing the original definition.

Structured Definitions

Some Strong’s definitions contain several levels of meaning traditionally identified with markers such as:

1)
1a)
1a1)

The current Strong’s Reference system displays those definitions in a nested hierarchy rather than as one difficult block of text. The underlying dictionary information has not been rewritten; the presentation simply makes the existing structure easier to understand.

Strong’s Reference Lookup

The website also has a standalone Strong’s Reference Lookup. Enter a reference such as:

G25

H1254

or an available LXX reference.

The lookup provides the dictionary entry together with additional information about how the word is actually used.

Usage by Verse

Usage by Verse shows the Scripture passages in which the Strong’s number occurs.

This allows you to move beyond a dictionary definition and examine how the word is actually used throughout Scripture.

Usage by Word

Usage by Word groups occurrences according to the actual English BSB rendering associated with that Strong’s number.

This is valuable because the same Hebrew or Greek word may be translated differently depending upon its context.

Usage by Book

Usage by Book shows how occurrences are distributed among the books of Scripture.

You can then drill down into the corresponding verses rather than merely seeing a total count.

Usage in the Septuagint

Where the LXX usage index is available, Usage in LXX shows occurrences within the Septuagint data used by Clark’s Anchored in Christ.

This provides another way of examining Greek vocabulary—particularly useful when studying how Greek words were used in the ancient Greek Old Testament.

The verse results provide the surrounding Greek context rather than merely reporting that the Strong’s number occurs somewhere in the LXX.