Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'honour' occurs 146 times in the standard works.

34 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'honour' in the standard works and contain 23.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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Esth. 6:6-11 (6 in 6 verses)

Num. 24:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 2:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 11:38 (2 in 1 verse)

John 5:23 (2 in 1 verse)

John 5:44 (2 in 1 verse)

John 8:54 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 13:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 2:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 14:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 1:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 4:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 12:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 91 41 132
Gen. 1 1 2
Ex. 3 1 4
Lev. 2 0 2
Num. 5 1 6
Deut. 2 0 2
Judg. 3 0 3
1 Sam. 3 3 6
2 Sam. 2 2 4
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 5 3 8
2 Chr. 7 0 7
Ezra 0 1 1
Esth. 10 0 10
Job 1 1 2
Ps. 14 6 20
Prov. 17 5 22
Eccl. 2 0 2
Isa. 3 10 13
Jer. 1 0 1
Lam. 0 2 2
Dan. 8 1 9
Micah 0 1 1
Nahum 0 1 1
Mal. 1 1 2
NT 55 24 79
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 146 65 211

Gen. 34:19
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

Ex. 14:4
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

Num. 22:15
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

1 Sam. 2:29
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

1 Sam. 9:6
And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.

1 Sam. 22:14
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

2 Sam. 23:19
Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

2 Sam. 23:23
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

2 Kgs. 5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

1 Chr. 4:9
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

1 Chr. 11:21
Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

1 Chr. 11:25
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

Ezra 4:14
Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Ps. 15:4
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Ps. 35:26
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Ps. 45:9
Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Ps. 69:19
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Ps. 71:13
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

Ps. 111:3
His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

Prov. 6:33
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Prov. 12:9
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

Prov. 13:18
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Prov. 14:31
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Prov. 27:18
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

Isa. 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

Isa. 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Isa. 5:13
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Isa. 9:15
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Isa. 23:8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

Isa. 23:9
The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Isa. 42:21
The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Isa. 43:4
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

Isa. 43:23
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

Isa. 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Lam. 1:8
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

Lam. 5:12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Dan. 4:34
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:

Micah 7:6
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Mal. 1:6
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?