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Alexander Cruden

Alexander Cruden , 1701-70, author of a famous biblical concordance, b. Aberdeen, Scotland. He spent most of his life near London. In 1737 he published his Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, which went through several editions and is the basis of later biblical concordances.

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Cruden, Alexander (1701–70), a bookseller who in 1737 published his Biblical Concordance.

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Cruden, Alexander (1701–70), compiler of the ‘Biblical Concordance’. His life was marked by eccentricities bordering on insanity. In 1732 he established a bookshop in London. He began to compile his concordance of the OT and NT in 1736 and in Nov. 1737 he presented a copy to Queen Caroline.

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