The word grace and Strong's numbers

Barbara - 

First, welcome to the forums!

Barbara Arthur said:

I want to know why the NKJV uses the word faith in lieu of grace in Acts 6:8,

This is a textual issue. Pardon me for a minute if you understand this already...

The Bible comes primarily from Greek & Hebrew Manuscripts. These are translated into English for you in the various translations you use. However, all manuscripts are not 100% identical. In this case, the manuscript stream that the NKJV used to translate the greek had the word πίστις, translated "faith". Other translations use manuscripts with the word χάρις, translated "grace.

To put it another way, the issue here isn't one primarily of translation since the ESV & NKJV were translating different words to begin with.

Barbara Arthur said:

how I can find this answer for myself in my new Logos 4 program.

The way that I found this out was to use the reverse interlinear for the ESV & the NKJV. When you come across a significant difference in translation, there is a good chance of a textual variant. When this is the case, you should make sure to look at several translations, especially ones from different streams… (comparing the NKJV & KJV would be pointless as they both utilize the "Textus Receptus" as the base text). 

Barbara Arthur said:

I want to view every Strong's number for a given word - at a glance. Like I would when I open a Strong's Concordance book. I want to learn how to do this with Logos 4.

Are you specifically interested in Strongs, or are you just interested in learning more about how words are translated? Have you tried "right clicking" on a word (in a Bible with a reverse interlinear) and performing a "Bible Word Study"?

Barbara Arthur said:

I want to know why the NKJV uses the word faith in lieu of grace in Acts 6:8, and how I can find this answer for myself in my new Logos 4 program.

This is easy: just click the little "2" symbol - it will open a footnote by the NKJV editors telling you that the NU-text (their abbreviation for the text of the Greek NT as published in Nestle-Aland GNT (currently 27th edition) and identically in the text as published by the United Bible Societies (UBS, currently 4th edition)) reads grace. I marked this green in the screenshot below. This footnote makes you aware that NKJV in the history of KJV uses a text that once was compiled by Erasmus of Rotterdam on basis of Greek manuscripts available to him, often called "Textus Receptus" or TR for short. The editors of NKJV will tell you in their preface section on the NT text about their rationale to choose the TR logosres:nkjv;art=nkjv.pref.8 

Barbara Arthur said:

ALSO, I want to view every Strong's number for a given word - at a glance.

This is easy for NKJV, ESV and other bibles that have a Reverse Interlinear, RI, in Logos (slightly less "at a glance" in other morphologically tagged bibles).

You may have the RI displayed at the bottom of the page, toggled by a button (marked yellow) . Alternatively, you may have all or a selection of RI information displayed directly beneath the English "surface text", Logos calls this "Inline" and you select the display variants under "Display" - I choose to see the GreekManuscript text and the Strong's number (all marked red) which gives you that "grace" is Strong's Greek 5485 (marked blue) 

Mouse-over this number shows a small box with the information in one of your resources explaining Strongs (which depends on prioritization - my highest prioritized resource for this is Vine's), double-click will open that resource. Additionally or alternatively you may choose to use the information panel (activated by Tools/Information ) which will do the same. For comparison sake I have configured it to show the Strong's definitions from Enhanced Strongs Lexicon.

Barbara Arthur said:

I want to learn how to do this with Logos 4.

The best way is to check the wiki ( http://wiki.logos.com/Getting_Started_with_Logos ), maybe watch some of the free instructional videos presented there - and come back to the forum to get help: you will.  

Hope this helps,

Mick

Barbara Arthur said:

Regarding Strong's numbers for a given word, I have my Concordance and looking up the word "travail." I see that for the NT alone there are four (4) different numbers. I would like to know if I have this type of access in my Logos 4.

In addition to what Alabama said (which is the preferable way to do it), yes, you can do this. If you want to go from English to Greek, you need a concordance resource which inevitably is tied to a translation (since this is a "reverse lexicon", you could help yourself with searching a small Greek dictionary resource, but this is more cumbersome), e.g. http://www.logos.com/product/1213/new-strongs-guide-to-bible-words which - as Mr. Strong's work in general - is tied to the KJV.

I found the four Greek Strong-#s for "travail" in it (5604, 5605, 3449 and 5088)

You can search bibles for the translation of Strongs - you open Search (the big magnifying glass), select Bible search instead of Basic Search and put in the Strongs - in brackets, leading g for the Greek ones of NT you are interested in. It will find all occurences in the bibles you select (note that of course only "morphologically tagged bibles" may be used = those with references in their database to the underlying Greek). Your NKJV has 7 occurences of the 5604 and 5605 I selected (these steps marked red). 

Optionally, you may user Add Versions to compare other translations (marked in blue). In the KJV you'll find the instances where "travail" was used. 

Again, "Greek is not English", as Keep Smiling reminds helpfully, thus you need to be careful to understand the results such a Search is giving you. Technically, Logos can do all that and much more.