Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible is a Bible concordance to the King James Version compiled by Robert Young. First published in 1879, it contains "about 311,000 references subdivided under the Hebrew and Greek originals with the literal meaning and pronunciation of each." Purpose A concordance is an index to a book allowing particular references to be found, usually with several words of context for each instance. Bible concordances normally show the individual words of the version being referenced in alphabetical order with the passages showing that word listed in traditional Bible book order. The key word is usually abbreviated to an initial. Young's Analytical Concordance was the first multilingual concordance to the Bible. Published in 1879, some 268 years after the King James Authorised Version which it indexes, after some 40 years of work including 3 years of typesetting. It was followed in 1894 by Strong's Concordance. Some Bible concordances are single language, e.g. English only, like Cruden's Concordance to the Bible (the first of its kind). They list the English text alphabetically. Young's Analytical is multilingual because while it lists the English words (and multiple word translations of single words) it also deals with the underlying Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic and Koine Greek languages. Young's goal, described in his preface to the first edition, was to enable "the simplest reader to a more correct understanding of the common English Bible, "by a reference to the original words in Hebrew and Greek" referencing William Tyndale to say that " every 'ploughboy' [could] know more of the Scriptures than the 'ancients'". His concordance was designed to be clear and easy to use "at a glance". His aim was that three points would be clearly displayed and easily found for each word: the original Greek or Hebrew word behind the English word used in the passage. the literal or 'primitive' meaning. a list of all the other passages in the English Bible that use this word from that Greek or Hebrew original. Together this would allow the reader to "distinguish things that differ, which are frequently confounded in the English Bible". Young saw additional value as he "for the first time inserted in their proper alphabetical order" with an explanation of who or what they are. Later editions of Cruden's which had listed names separately took up this format. Young's is a complete concordance rather than an exhaustive one like Strong's