Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'how' occurs 740 times in the standard works.

227 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'how' in the standard works and contain 30.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 77 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 12:1-7 (12 in 7 verses)

Job 25:4-26:3 (7 in 6 verses)

Rom. 10:14-15 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:8-12 (5 in 5 verses)

Hosea 11:8 (4 in 1 verse)

Ps. 13:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 10:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Matt. 16:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 15:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Sam. 11:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:41 (3 in 1 verse)

Lam. 1:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 8:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 21:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:29 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 19:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 94:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 12:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Lam. 4:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Obad. 1:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 6:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 47:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 8:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 9:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 7:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 9:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 6:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 30:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 23:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 29:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 10:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 13:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 14:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 14:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 8:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 21:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 44:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 133:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 139:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 14:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 7:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 17:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 8:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 11:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 9:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 20:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 3:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 15:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:53 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 46:8 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 6:30 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 43:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 10:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 16:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 22:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 74:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 89:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 5:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

John 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 121:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 316 93 409
Gen. 12 0 12
Ex. 12 0 12
Num. 8 0 8
Deut. 14 2 16
Josh. 7 0 7
Judg. 7 6 13
Ruth 3 1 4
1 Sam. 14 1 15
2 Sam. 20 7 27
1 Kgs. 13 5 18
2 Kgs. 15 9 24
1 Chr. 3 2 5
2 Chr. 6 8 14
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 2 2 4
Esth. 4 0 4
Job 26 2 28
Ps. 50 2 52
Prov. 10 0 10
Eccl. 4 0 4
Song. 7 0 7
Isa. 13 14 27
Jer. 31 12 43
Lam. 7 0 7
Ezek. 5 6 11
Dan. 5 0 5
Hosea 5 1 6
Joel 1 3 4
Amos 0 1 1
Obad. 3 0 3
Micah 1 2 3
Hab. 2 0 2
Zeph. 1 3 4
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 3 4 7
NT 227 25 252
BM 147 175 322
DC 41 65 106
PGP 9 25 34
TOTAL 740 383 1123

Deut. 32:2
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Deut. 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Judg. 4:17
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Judg. 11:28
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Judg. 16:22
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

Judg. 18:29
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.

Judg. 19:20
And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

Judg. 21:18
Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

Ruth 3:12
And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

1 Sam. 8:9
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

2 Sam. 2:23
Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

2 Sam. 12:14
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

2 Sam. 13:14
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

2 Sam. 13:25
And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

2 Sam. 18:22
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?

2 Sam. 18:23
But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

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

1 Kgs. 2:15
And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the Lord.

1 Kgs. 10:7
Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

1 Kgs. 11:13
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

1 Kgs. 11:22
Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.

1 Kgs. 11:34
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

2 Kgs. 3:25
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

2 Kgs. 8:10
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

2 Kgs. 10:29
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.

2 Kgs. 12:13
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:

2 Kgs. 14:4
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kgs. 15:35
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 17:29
Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

2 Kgs. 17:40
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

2 Kgs. 22:7
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

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. 28:4
Howbeit the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:

2 Chr. 9:6
Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

2 Chr. 18:34
And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

2 Chr. 20:33
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

2 Chr. 21:7
Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

2 Chr. 21:20
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

2 Chr. 24:5
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

2 Chr. 27:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly.

2 Chr. 32:31
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Neh. 9:33
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

Neh. 13:2
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Job 30:24
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Ps. 65:10
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

Ps. 72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Isa. 10:7
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Isa. 13:6
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Isa. 14:31
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

Isa. 15:2
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Isa. 15:3
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

Isa. 15:8
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.

Isa. 16:7
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

Isa. 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Isa. 23:6
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

Isa. 23:14
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

Isa. 52:5
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

Isa. 65:14
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

Jer. 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Jer. 4:8
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Jer. 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

Jer. 25:34
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

Jer. 25:36
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.

Jer. 44:4
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Jer. 47:2
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

Jer. 48:20
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

Jer. 48:31
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres.

Jer. 48:39
They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

Jer. 49:3
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

Jer. 51:8
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Ezek. 13:11
Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

Ezek. 13:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

Ezek. 21:12
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

Ezek. 30:2
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

Ezek. 34:26
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:11
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Micah 1:8
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Micah 5:7
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

Zeph. 1:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

Zeph. 1:11
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

Zeph. 3:7
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

Zech. 10:1
Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

Zech. 11:2
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

Zech. 11:3
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.