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Googling "Strong 2186 Greek" gives The information might be shown as a page of the BibleHub website, which shows that 2186 is list or as a composite verb table.{| border="epiHistemi1", that is, ! colspan="to uponStand2". Compare the English verb | List/Table A|-! colspan="to underStand2", which, in modern usage, does not relate to standing.| 2186—KJV Word Usage|-!Translation!Count|-|come upon|6|-|come|4|-|stand|3|-|stand by|3|-|miscellaneous|5|-|Total|21|}
Another useful Googling "Strong 2186 Greek" also gives a page of the BibleTools website , which shows that 2186 is used only 21 times, almost always in Luke or Acts, and its first instance is httpLuke 2://lexiconcordance9, "the angel of the Lord came upon them".com The last instance in the Gospel of Luke is the current verse. Type That might indicate that Luke is using the Strong's Number into verb 2186, at both the Greek or Hebrew "enter search here" box at beginning and end of the leftgospel, of angels.
So it now looks as though {| border="1"! colspan="2" | List/Table B|-! The word 2186 is used 21 times|-|Luke 2:9: "lo, the angel of the Lord <b>came upon</b> them, and the glory of the Lord"<br>Luke 2:38: "And she <b>coming</b> in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the verb 2186 cannot be Lord,"<br>Luke 4:39: "And <b>he stood</b> over her, and rebuked the ordinary verb fever; and"<br>Luke 10:40: "much serving, and <b>came</b> to standhim, and said, Lord, dost thou not care"<br>Luke 20:1: "and the scribes <b>came upon</b> him with the elders, "<br>Luke 21:34: "and so that 2186 may imply angels day <b>come</b> upon you unawares."<br>Luke 24:4: "behold, two men <b>stood by</b> them in shining"<br>Acts 4:1: "and the Sadducees, <b>came upon</b> them,"<br>Acts 6:12: "the scribes, and <b>came upon</b> him, and caught him, and brought"<br>Acts 10:17: "Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and <b>stood</b> before the gate,"<br>Acts 11:11: "immediately there were three men <b>already come</b> unto the house where"<br>Acts 12:7: "behold, the angel of the Lord <b>came upon</b> him, and a light shined in"<br>Acts 17:5: "gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and <b>assaulted</b> the house"<br>Acts 22:13: "unto me, and <b>stood</b>, and said unto me, Brother Saul,"<br>Acts 22:20: "I also was <b>standing by</b>, and consenting unto his death,"<br>Acts 23:11: "following the Lord <b>stood by</b> him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul:"<br>Acts 23:27: "have been killed of them: then <b>came</b> I with an army, and rescued him,"<br>Acts 28:2: "every one, because of the <b>present</b> rain, and that it certainly does not usually mean because of the"<br>1 Thessalonians 5:3: "then sudden destruction <b>cometh upon</b> them, as travail upon a woman with child;"<br>2 Timothy 4:2: "Preach the word; <b>be instant</b> in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,"to stand<br>2 Timothy 4:6: "the time of my departure <b>is at hand</b>."|}
[[Category:Bible words and their meaning—Strong's Numbers]]
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==Introduction==
Strong's Numbers enable people who do not know Greek or Hebrew to understand the meaning of words in the Bible.
The American Professor James Strong, born 1822-and died 1894, allocated a unique number to each word stem in the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament. For example, if Strong's system had been applied to English, then "go" and "went" would have the same Strong's Number, because they are parts of the same verb - but "came" would have a separate number. Just to confirm, Strong's Numbers apply to Greek and Hebrew, not to English.
To find the meaning of a Bible word, there are two stages:-
(2) Look up that Strong's Number. There will be a definition of the Greek or Hebrew word. Also, there will be a list of all Bible verses which include that Strong's Number - and a table of usual English translations, with the number of times each occurs.
It may be easiest to work on the world wide Web. For offline use, the Xiphos program can be used. The printed book, Strong's Concordance, is on sale.
Xiphos has the following statement, "Warning: If you live in a persecuted country and do not wish to risk detection you should NOT use the remote installation feature!" That may also apply to any use of the web.
==How to use Strong's Numbers—an example==
Luke 24:4 states, "two men stood by them". The obvious reading of the English is that the men two were standing, that is, that the ordinary Greek verb "to stand" is used. That can be checked using Strong's Numbers, with a surprising result. Incidentally, the four accounts of the discovery of the Saviour's resurrection are discussed at the wikiChristian page "[[Resurrection of Jesus - WenhamJesus—Wenham's harmony of the four accounts of the first Easter Sunday]]".
Step (1): Googling "Lk 24:4 Strong" gives a page of the BibleHub website, and hovering on the phrase "stood by" gives the number 2186.
Googling "Strong's Greek 2186 Biblestudytools" gives the information that, in the King James Version, 2186 is translated "to stand" 6 times but "to come", instead, 10 times (excluding miscellaneous items). Likewise, in the New American Standard version, "to stand" is used only 6 times out of 21.
Googling "Strong 2186 Greek" also gives a page of the BibleTools BibleHub website, which shows that 2186 is used only 21 timesa composite verb "epHistemi", almost always in Luke or Acts, and its first instance that is Luke 2:9, "the angel of the Lord came upon themto uponStand". The last instance Compare the English verb "to underStand", which, in the Gospel of Luke is the current versemodern usage, does not relate to standing.
So it now looks as though the verb 2186 cannot be the ordinary verb "to stand" and that it does not usually mean "to stand".
==Offline use of Strong's Numbers—Xiphos==
More information at https://xiphos.org/manual/originallanguage.html .
A similar free app for mobile phones is "MySword Bible" from Galaxy Store. That gives the Strong's Number look-up and also a Strong's definition for each Strong's Number.
==Printed books—Strong's Concordance, etc.==
[[Image:Strong_1899_p425.jpg|thumb|A page of Strong's 1899 Concordance, which also contains a list of definitions of each of the Strong's Numbers.]]
The printed book is available from booksellers. It is arranged as a Concordance, that is, an alphabetical list of the words in the English Bible. For each English word, each occurrence is listed in order of its Bible reference and is labelled with the Strong's Number of the original Greek or Hebrew word. At the end of the book is the list of Strong's definitions of the Greek and Hebrew Strong's Number word-stems.
Strong's definitions of the Greek/Hebrew numbers seem wordy and of much less use than the tables shown above. Having said that, a modern version, namely Kohlenberger JR (2002) "The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible", Zondervan, supplements short verbal definitions with lists of counts of translations as in list/table A.
Wigram GV (1844) "The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament", Longmans, provides list/table B, in English, but is not indexed according to Strong's Numbers and therefore lacks usefulness. Some modern editions of Wigram, however, may perhaps be indexed according to Strong's Numbers.
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