An alphabetical list of important words in a text with references to where they appear. Agreement or harmony between things or people.
From Old French concordance, from Latin concordantia, from concordare (to agree), based on concors (of the same mind). The biblical concordance concept developed in the 13th century to help scholars study religious texts systematically.
The first major concordance was created for the Bible by Hugh of Saint-Cher around 1230, revolutionizing biblical scholarship by making it possible to trace themes across the entire text. Modern search engines essentially create instant concordances of the entire internet, showing how this medieval scholarly tool predicted our digital age.
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