Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'like' occurs 857 times in the standard works.

309 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'like' in the standard works and contain 36.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 113 minutes to read the entire list.

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Song. 6:12-7:9 (11 in 11 verses)

Isa. 51:3-8 (7 in 6 verses)

2 Ne. 8:3-8 (7 in 6 verses)

Ether 2:16-17 (6 in 2 verses)

Rev. 4:3-7 (6 in 5 verses)

Dan. 7:4-9 (6 in 6 verses)

Isa. 5:28-30 (5 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 15:28-30 (5 in 3 verses)

Song. 4:2-5 (5 in 4 verses)

Joel 2:5-9 (5 in 5 verses)

Isa. 17:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 114:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 50:42-44 (4 in 3 verses)

Ps. 102:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 66:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Ps. 109:18 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 31:8 (3 in 1 verse)

Dan. 10:6 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 4:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 25:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

Ruth 4:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 7:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 3:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 22:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 147:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 59:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Micah 7:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Job 40:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Job 41:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 83:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 92:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 102:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 46:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 48:36-38 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 51:38-40 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 6:47-49 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 1:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 11:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 15:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 16:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 33:17 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 21:22 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 9:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 30:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 34:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 29:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 58:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 72:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 78:52 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 78:57 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 78:69 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 82:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 86:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 23:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 18:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 24:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 58:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 23:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 23:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 29:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 46:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 49:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 27:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 38:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 4:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 5:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 5:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 2:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 12:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Mal. 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 2:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 9:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 5:16 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 29:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 2:17 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 24:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 6:7 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 37:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 25:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 17:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 17:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 40:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 42:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 51:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 43:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 9:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 13:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 13:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 20:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 48:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 67:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 110:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 130:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 135:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 575 97 672
NT 94 79 173
BM 140 23 163
DC 36 22 58
PGP 12 8 20
Moses 6 4 10
Abr. 4 2 6
JS-M 0 2 2
JS-H 2 0 2
TOTAL 857 229 1086

Moses 2:26
And I, God, said unto mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and it was so. And I, God, said: Let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Moses 6:8
Now this prophecy Adam spake, as he was moved upon by the Holy Ghost, and a genealogy was kept of the children of God. And this was the book of the generations of Adam, saying: In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Moses 6:10
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his own image, and called his name Seth.

Moses 6:63
And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.

Abr. 4:11
And the Gods said: Let us prepare the earth to bring forth grass; the herb yielding seed; the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind, whose seed in itself yieldeth its own likeness upon the earth; and it was so, even as they ordered.

Abr. 4:26
And the Gods took counsel among themselves and said: Let us go down and form man in our image, after our likeness; and we will give them dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

JS-M 1:27
And now I show unto you a parable. Behold, wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together; so likewise shall mine elect be gathered from the four quarters of the earth.

JS-M 1:39
So likewise, mine elect, when they shall see all these things, they shall know that he is near, even at the doors;