CONCORDANCE

a dictionary or index to the Bible, wherein all the leading words are ranged alphabetically, and the books, chapters, and verses wherein they occur, referred to, to a ist in finding out pa ages, and comparing the several significations of the same word. The earliest attempt at a Concordance is the collection of parallel pa ages in the margin of the 5th volume of the Com platens i an Polyglot. The first English Polyglot was published by John Merbeck, or Marbeck, a celebrated English musician, in 1550. Of English Concordances, Cruden’s is well known and valued by every biblical student. Crutwell’s “Concordance of Parallels” is useful, but the number of parallel pa ages referred to, and sometimes the slightne of their connexion, renders the work le useful on ordinary occasions than the marginal references in our Bibles. Gastrell’s “Christian Institutes,” Locke and Dodd’s “Common-place Book of Scripture,” Strutt’s work with the same title, and Matthew Talbot’s “Analysis of the Holy Bible,” all a ume the character of a concordance. The best Hebrew concordance is Calasios. For the Septuagint, Trommius, for the Greek Testament, Schmidt, (a very beautiful 12mo edition of which was edited by Mr. Greenfield in 1830,) and for the Vulgate, Cardinal Hugo’s Concordance may be consulted.