Cruden's Concordance

(Reference 1955 edition) Cruden's concordance was first published in 1737, one of the first copies being personally presented to Queen Caroline on November 3, 1737.

[1] 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?".

The Times recorded that Cruden left out Buz (brother of Huz) and Sneeze (put under Neeze).

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Alexander Cruden 's Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures . First published 1737. The first entry, for example, 'abase' appears in the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) four times; in the books of Job , Isaiah , Ezekiel , and Daniel . The header of the column of the first entry, 'abi', is the first three letters of the last entry on that page.