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concordance

concordance

1 8.6
An alphabetical list of main words with the lines where they appear
  • noun
  • /kənˈkɔrdəns/
  • Specialized
translation icon : índice
  • Finally, the student work concludes with a highly helpful analytical concordance.
  • concordance analysis

Examples

  • I'm going to go through this pretty quickly because if you just take a concordance and look up these terms, you can look at all the different places first.

  • You'll want your Bible, of course, but also get a good Bible dictionary, concordance, pen, and paper.

    Blog text (31)
  • Any concordance helps make a complex work more accessible, and certainly that is the purpose of this one.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Might need to look up in a concordance to see if Luke likes that phrase, because he does.

  • I even looked up your name in my Bible concordance.

  • Rev. had his Bible open, was deep into the Concordance, and wasn't paying too much attention.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Look up word 473 in Strong's Concordance in the Greek dictionary.

    Blog text (30)
  • References are to the editions and concordances prepared by Kasten, Nitti, and Anderson.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Then, concordance lines are analyzed qualitatively as a means of verifying or further refining statistical observations.

    Academic text (2015)
  • A concordance of the text helps students find important phrases and their meanings.

Compounds

9.3

A number that shows how much people agree about the order of items

How Complex

ontology
  • Specialized
6 8.9
knowledge base
  • Specialized
7 3.4
taxonomy
  • Specialized
9 6.7
concordance
  • Specialized
1 8.6

Surface Forms

concordance singular
concordances plural

Morphology

concordance = concord (opaque) = concord + ance

The form is built from 'concord' plus '-ance', but the specialized meaning of a text index is not predictable from the base for an average learner.

Etymology

The word concordance can also mean an alphabetical list of the main words in a book; think of it as a tool that 'brings together' every place a word appears, which fits the root con- 'with'.