Strong's Concordance

Try: love H3068 G26 shepherd

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Hebrew Lexicon 8,674 words · Old Testament
א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ ק ר ש ת
Greek Lexicon 5,611 words · New Testament
α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω
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שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm peace, wholeness H7965 ἀγάπη agápē love G26 חֵסֵד chêçêd lovingkindness H2617 λόγος lógos word, message G3056 רוּחַ rûwach spirit, breath, wind H7307 χάρις cháris grace G5485 הָלַל hâlal to praise — the root of hallelujah H1984 πίστις pístis faith G4102 אָמֵן ʼâmên amen — “so be it” H543 ἐκκλησία ekklēsía assembly, church G1577 סֶלָה çelâh selah — a pause in the psalms H5542 ὡσαννά hōsanná hosanna — “oh, save!” G5614

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G26 ἀγάπη agápē · /ag-ah'-pay/

Love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast

KJV: (feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love

The Greek word agápē serves as a central term for love and is often translated as charity. It appears 116 times across 106 unique verses in the Bible. The term signifies affection and benevolence and is also used specially to refer to a love-feast. Beyond simp...

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14,285 original-language words
313,587 tagged occurrences
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What Is Strong’s Concordance?

In 1890, after more than thirty years of work, Dr. James Strong published an exhaustive index of every word in the King James Bible. Each underlying Hebrew and Greek word received a number — H1–H8674 for the Old Testament, G1–G5624 for the New — so that anyone can trace an English word back to the original language without knowing a letter of Hebrew or Greek.

Every entry here pairs Strong’s original definition with a full word study, audio pronunciation, grammatical forms, and every verse where the word appears. The numbers run through the rest of the site too: tap a tagged word in any KJV chapter to jump straight to its entry.

Four traps to avoid

A concordance is powerful — and easy to misuse. The classic mistakes, so you can skip them:

Roots aren’t meanings

“Understand” has nothing to do with standing under. Likewise ἐκκλησία grew from “call out,” but in the New Testament it simply means an assembly. Usage determines meaning — not etymology.

One sense at a time

An entry lists a word’s whole range, but each verse selects one sense. σώζω covers rescue, healing, and salvation — context decides which is in view, never all at once.

Idioms aren’t literal

Exodus 34:6 calls God אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם — literally “long of nose.” The idiom means slow to anger. Word-for-word readings of figures of speech mislead.

Grammar carries meaning

The same root can act, be acted on, or cause action depending on its form. That’s why every entry here charts its grammatical forms — check how the word behaves in your verse.

These cautions are standard exegetical method — see James Barr, The Semantics of Biblical Language (1961), and D. A. Carson, Exegetical Fallacies (2nd ed., 1996).