Strong's Concordance 4+

Edit: well I looked again and found the add free. Wish it was a one time fee. But it’s monthly or yearly. Yearly does save quite a bit of money. Moved my 2 star rating to 4, only 4 because the app creator needs to understand their audience and understand how bands the adds are to the Christian. It’s like going to the movie theater or a family safe movie and all the movie trailers before the feature are sexual, demonic or laced with profanity. Do better on choosing your add sponsors.

I’d honestly pay to have a non ad experience for this app. But as I have yet to find that option, the ads strongly reduce the experience on this app. It’s great for the go when I don’t have my physical book in front of me. But I struggle when ads are popping up all the time and those ads can be distracting or extremely worldly when you might be in the middle of studying. It’s a perfect example of “Satan get behind me”.

I give five stars to the ease of finding passages with the Strong # embedded into the text. Click on the # and the definition comes up, close the definition and the text remains so one can continue reading or search for another passage. But to search for a specific word in a book only rates one star at best. One cannot search individual books of the Bible, but can search groups of books, such as gospels or Paul’s epistles. Two problems. 1. The search will bring up words within words. Search for “age” and message, marriage, bondage, advantage, etc. will be highlighted. 2. If one chooses one verse to find the definition of the word being searched for, and taps on that word in that verse, you are taken to another page where the definition can be accessed. But there’s no way to return to the word search to check definitions in other verses. Also, the definitions of words are often confusing and difficult to understand. Apparently, the definitions used are from the original Strong’s Concordance. It’s unfortunate that the newer definitions used in the latest Strong’s concordance, which is called the Strongest Strong’s, were not used instead of the original. They are much clearer and easier to understand.

Thank you for developing a useful tool when on the go for studying the Word. So why 4 stars out of 5? In the short time I have been using this app to study, I have come across one bothersome problem: when I tap on a number within the pop-up box of a word I desire to study further, I can’t go backwards to the previous word-study. (And so many words have additional layers of words in their meaning...some create quite a rabbit trail) if I click on the strong’s # for a word, and then click on a strong’s # inside of that word and so on, I can’t easily go backwards. I have to drop the box completely and ‘start over.’ Would it be possible to add a “back” arrow for that situation?