Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'word' occurs 1139 times in the standard works.

349 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'word' in the standard works and contain 30.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 143 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mark 4:14-20 (8 in 7 verses)

Jacob 2:8-12 (7 in 5 verses)

Matt. 13:19-23 (6 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 12:25-13:2 (6 in 6 verses)

1 Ne. 17:26-31 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 11:21-22 (5 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:14-17 (5 in 4 verses)

Alma 12:9-13 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 15:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 4:19-5:1 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 42:31-43:2 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 6:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 23:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 31:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

John 1:1 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 2:13 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 3:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 35:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 7:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 21:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 40:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 16:34-17:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 119:41-43 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 119:160-162 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 1:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 32:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 20:45-47 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 8:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

James 1:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Pet. 1:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Pet. 1:25-2:2 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 29:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 32:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 32:40-42 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 34:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 27:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 13:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 22:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 56:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 105:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 66:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 23:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 10:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 3:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:46 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 28:29 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 29:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 19:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 12:20 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 11:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 60:14 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 90:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 112:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:13 (2 in 1 verse)

A of F 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 9:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 18:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 3:21-4:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 17:24-18:1 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Kgs. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

 1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

 1:17 So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.




2 Chr. 36:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:81-82 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:147-148 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:169-170 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 147:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 28:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 5:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 13:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 20:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 22:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 26:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 34:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 10:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 13:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 15:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Col. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Thes. 2:17-3:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 6:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jarom 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 25:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:57-58 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 21:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 35:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 38:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 41:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 45:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 19:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 60:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 89:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 96:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 112:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 492 866 1358
Gen. 7 24 31
Ex. 8 26 34
Lev. 1 7 8
Num. 19 15 34
Deut. 12 48 60
Josh. 9 25 34
Judg. 0 29 29
1 Sam. 9 43 52
2 Sam. 14 26 40
1 Kgs. 49 20 69
2 Kgs. 22 27 49
1 Chr. 12 14 26
2 Chr. 15 26 41
Ezra 3 3 6
Neh. 1 13 14
Esth. 2 5 7
Job 1 55 56
Ps. 60 46 106
Prov. 6 44 50
Eccl. 1 13 14
Song. 0 2 2
Isa. 28 39 67
Jer. 98 154 252
Lam. 1 4 5
Ezek. 69 99 168
Dan. 5 16 21
Hosea 3 8 11
Joel 2 2 4
Amos 6 11 17
Jonah 4 0 4
Micah 2 5 7
Nahum 0 3 3
Hab. 1 0 1
Zeph. 2 1 3
Hag. 6 2 8
Zech. 13 9 22
Mal. 1 2 3
NT 207 134 341
BM 315 799 1114
DC 115 141 256
PGP 10 27 37
TOTAL 1139 1967 3106

2 Kgs. 1:7
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

2 Kgs. 1:16
And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

2 Kgs. 1:17
So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

2 Kgs. 3:12
And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the Lord is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

2 Kgs. 3:26
And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

2 Kgs. 4:44
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 6:12
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

2 Kgs. 6:18
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

2 Kgs. 6:22
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

2 Kgs. 6:30
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

2 Kgs. 7:1
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

2 Kgs. 7:16
And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 8:12
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

2 Kgs. 9:26
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the Lord. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 9:36
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

2 Kgs. 10:10
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lord hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.

2 Kgs. 10:25
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

2 Kgs. 11:15
But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 11:20
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

2 Kgs. 14:25
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher.

2 Kgs. 15:12
This was the word of the Lord which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.

2 Kgs. 18:20
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

2 Kgs. 18:27
But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

2 Kgs. 18:28
Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

2 Kgs. 18:36
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

2 Kgs. 18:37
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

2 Kgs. 19:4
It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

2 Kgs. 19:6
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

2 Kgs. 19:7
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

2 Kgs. 19:16
Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

2 Kgs. 19:21
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

2 Kgs. 19:37
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 20:4
And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

2 Kgs. 20:16
And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 20:19
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

2 Kgs. 22:9
And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 22:11
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

2 Kgs. 22:13
Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

2 Kgs. 22:16
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

2 Kgs. 22:18
But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;

2 Kgs. 22:20
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

2 Kgs. 23:2
And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 23:3
And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

2 Kgs. 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

2 Kgs. 23:24
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 24:2
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets.