Cruden's Concordance

''A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures'', generally known as ''Cruden's Concordance'', is a concordance of the King James Bible (KJV) that was singlehandedly created by Alexander Cruden (1699–1770). The ''Concordance'' was first published in 1737 and has not been in print since then.
Two editions of the ''Concordance'' appeared during his lifetime, 1761 and 1769.
(Reference 1955 edition)

Publication and composition

Cruden's concordance was first published in 1737, one of the first copies being personally presented to Queen Caroline on November 3, 1737. Cruden began work on his concordance in 1735, whilst working as a bookseller in London. Cruden worked alone from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. every day and completed the bulk of the work in less than a year. The proofreading and layout took a little longer.

His brain was occupied with nothing else, so much so that he failed to notice the diminishing stock in his bookshop and the consequent lack of custom. "Was there ever, before or since the year 1737", writes his biographer Edith Olivier, "another enthusiast for whom it was no drudgery, but a sustained passion of delight, to creep conscientiously word by word through every chapter of the Bible, and that not once only, but again and again?".

Errors

Although a remarkable feat, the concordance was not entirely without error. The Times recorded that Cruden left out Buz (brother of Huz) and Sneeze (put under Neeze). In fact, the name "Chloe" was missing until a revised edition was published in 1930.1 Corinthians 1:11

See also

* '' Strong's Concordance''
* '' Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible''

References

1737 non-fiction books
1737 in Scotland
18th-century Christian texts
Bible concordances
Christianity in Scotland
Scottish books
King James Version
Caroline of Ansbach

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