Explanation of Word Study Results

First, the results page is exhaustively linked, i.e. words are linked whereever it is possible to do so. A link may lead to another section of the results page or may open a separate browser window to display more detailed information from another web site.

The results are based on the Strong's numbering system, keyed to the NASB (New American Standard Bible) translation. Strong's assigns a number to each unique, original language word in the Bible. Keep in mind that the numbering system starts at 1 for Hebrew and then restarts at 1 for Greek. Therefore, the same Strong's number can represent to two different words. For example, the number 1000 refers to the Hebrew word for "egg" and to the Greek word for "throw".

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Greek. Since the Strong's numbering system starts with the number 1 for both languages, the study results separate Old Testament references from New Testament references to avoid confusing identical numbers that refer to different Hebrew and Greek words.

Summary of Results

The English word (or word root) you have studied may appear in the NASB by itself or as part of a larger word. So, each English variation is listed (for both Testaments).

The "Old Testament" column lists all forms (sorted alphabetically) of the English word that appear in the (Hebrew) Old Testament (in the range of books that you specified for the analysis). Similarly, The "New Testament" column lists all forms (sorted alphabetically) of the English word that appear in the (Greek) New Testament (in the range of books that you specified).

One English Word to Multiple Hebrew/Greek Words

One English word sometimes translates multiple original language words, each of which is used independently. For example, the English verb "to love" is used to translate both the Greek verb agapao [Strong's #25] and the Greek verb phileo [Strong's #5368] (both of which occur in John 21:15). So, the word study results for each English word list the Strong's number for each original language word that the English word translates.

One English word sometimes translates multiple original language words which are used together to communicate a single concept. For example, Jeremiah 48:20 uses the compound English word "self-exaltation" to translate two Hebrew words ("inner man" [Strong's #3820] and "haughtiness" [Strong's #7312]). Therefore, the word study results indicate that "self-exaltation" has two occurrences, one reflecting Strong's number 3820 and the other reflecting Strong's number 7312.

Implied Words

Sometimes an English word is used to communicate a word that does not appear in the original language text, but is implied either by the grammar, the context or the very meaning of the word. For example, consider the word "himself" in Matthew 18:26 ("prostrated<4352> himself<4352> before<4352> him"). Only the verb "prostrated" appears in the original Greek. However, the verb means "to prostrate oneself before another". So, OliveTree linked the Strong's number 4352 to "prostrated", "himself" and "before" to indicate that all three English words are used to translate that single Greek word. In this case, "himself" and "before" are implied but are assigned a Strong's number anyway. The analysis results will count Strong's number 4352 as occuring three times in this verse.

In other cases, an English word may be implied and no Strong's number is assigned to it. For example, Matthew 6:29 ("clothed <4016> himself").

Also, extremely common words (such as "and", "the", etc) are not keyed to Strong's by OliveTree, even though they do appear in the original language and there are defined Strong's numbers for them. Apparently, OliveTree choose to do this for the sake of efficiency.

Occurrences

The number of occurrences listed is the number of times the original language word appears in the range of books you selected. The list is sorted from most to least number of occurrences.

Old Testament Occurrences

This section contains two subsections: one maps the English words to the corresponding Hebrew words, the other maps Hebrew words to English words.

The English to Hebrew section expands on the "Old Testament" column of the Summary table - it adds the list of Bible verse references in which all the Hebrew words occur.

Note: If the same verse appears more than once in the "References" column, then that word occurs more than once in that single verse.

The Hebrew to English section begins with the Strong's number, then provides a concise definition of the Hebrew word (from bible.crosswalk.com). In order to see what the original language word looks like, you must install two True Type fonts provided by bible.crosswalk.com. Installing is very easy. Just follow their directions.

Following the definition there appears a table of all the English words that are used to translate the given Hebrew word. Similar to the tables in the English to Hebrew section, the number of occurrences and Bible verse references are given.

New Testament Occurrences

This section is organized identically to the Old Testment Occurrences section except that the mapping is to and from Greek rather than Hebrew.

Timers

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