What follows are some things to keep in mind as you begin your word study with the concordances:
Source: The Eerdmans analytical concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (1988), below.
The Blue Letter Bible doesn't just give you every occurrence of the English word "love" in a given translation:
It can also give you every occurrence of the underlying Hebrew or Greek equivalent, as follows:
What is more, if you click on the Strong number (for example H159 or H1730), it gives you every occurrence of that Hebrew (not English!) word in the Bible (an exhaustive concordance, in other words):
To see all of the results, you sometimes have to scroll to the bottom and then click into the next section, under Search Results Continued:
A conversion chart such as the one on pp. 1813-1825 of The NIV exhaustive concordance (REF BS425 .G62 1990) can be used to convert a Strong number (for example H159 or H1730) into a G/K number. Thus, the Hebrew word דּוֹד (dowd or dôd) is number 1730 in the Strong system, but number 1856 in the G/K system:
Once you have a G/K number in hand, the use of G/K-based tools (such as those annotated with a "G/K" on the handout Basic English-Bible Reference) is open to you. One of these is The Hebrew-English concordance to the Old Testament: with the New International Version (REF BS1121 .K65 2008):