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About Concordances

A concordance is an alphabetical index of all the words in a text, showing every contextual occurrence of a word. A hymnal concordance provides an index of the words found in the hymnal's stanzas.
Lutheran Music provides two concordances for each hymnal: Abridged and Unabridged. The Abridged and Unabridged Concordances are packaged together, and the package containing both can be either downloaded from our web site or received via U.S. Mail.

Abridged Concordance

The Abridged Concordance is a dictionary-like printed book (or eBook), indexing all the significant words in the hymnal. In order to produce a conveniently-sized book, the Abridged Concordance omits common pronouns, verbs, prepositions, and articles that have minimal search or study value. A free sample of the Christian Worship Hymnal Abridged Concordance is available in this preview PDF file.

Unabridged Concordance

The Unabridged Concordance is a browser-based computer reference. It contains references for every word of every hymn stanza.

The page images below are from the Christian Worship Unabridged Hymnal Concordance. The actual browser pages are much higher quality than these images.

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 		The top image is a sample of the concordance page for the letter N for the hymnal.
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 		Clicking on the word NEIGHBOR opens a page listing all of the occurrences of the word. Each entry is preceeded by a reference to the hymn number, stanza and phrase in which the word is found.
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 		Clicking on the reference opens the hymn text page showing the word in the context of the overall hymn stanzas. If the hymn text has a copyright restiction, the stanza text is obfuscated on the hymn text page.