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Religious Studies & Theology

Bibles

Concordances are located in the Reference collection in the BS424 - 440 range. Selected versions:
 
This website allows access to three concordances including Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.
 
Nelson's Complete Concordance of the New American Bible
REF BS425.N36 1977
 
Nelson's Complete Concordance of the Revised Standard Version Bible
REF BS425.E47
 
New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
REF BS425.S8 1984

Qu'ran

A Concordance of the Qur'an
BP133.K37 1983
Terms are listed in their English transliterations.

What is a concordance?

An alphabetical list of the (principal) words or (less commonly) topics present in a text or texts, usually with citations of the passages in which they are found. In later use also: a generated list of instances in which a particular word occurs in a digital corpus, typically with the surrounding context also excerpted . 

Concordances were originally compiled for the Bible and later, in the 19th century, for authors such as Milton, Shakespeare, Homer, and Tennyson. By the latter half of the 20th cent. concordances could be compiled relatively quickly using computational methods. (Oxford English Dictionary)