Concordance.  If for example, we have been looking up the words translated

`purpose' and found that the Hebrew for the passage we are considering is

zomam, our investigation is not finished until we have considered the other

occurrences of the word, where the English uses some other word than

`purpose' in its translation.  Using Wilson, we look up the index and find:

zomam Kal, to consider 1, to devise 3, to image 1, to plot 1, to purpose 2,

to think 4, to think evil 1.

The figures following the English indicate the number of times this

Hebrew word is so translated.

This of course sounds a rather long process, but there is no

alternative than to learn to read Hebrew and use a Hebrew Concordance

straight away.

We remember in our earlier days, testing our knowledge of the alphabet

by slowly spelling out a notice in Hebrew characters which hung in a window

in East London, only to produce at the finish, the prosaic inscription

`Mangling done here'.  Anyhow we learned the letters and had made a start in

one of the most fascinating as well as profitable studies a believer can