Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'four' occurs 418 times in the standard works.

166 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'four' in the standard works and contain 39.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 67 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 27:7-15 (9 in 9 verses)

Ezek. 1:5-10 (8 in 6 verses)

D&C 77:2-9 (8 in 8 verses)


Ezek. 43:14-20 (7 in 7 verses)

 43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

 43:15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

 43:16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

 43:17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

 43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

 43:19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.

 43:20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.




Rev. 7:1-4 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:30-34 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 48:16 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 46:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 2:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 1:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 10:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 25:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 37:13 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 23:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 26:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:41-42 (3 in 2 verses)

Rev. 5:14-6:1 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 11:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 27:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 1:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 48:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 4:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 5:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 9:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 14:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 135:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 25:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 26:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 27:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 36:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 37:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 26:43 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 18:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 49:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 10:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 7:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 8:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 19:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 23:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 12:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 274 163 437
Gen. 12 8 20
Ex. 36 16 52
Lev. 5 3 8
Num. 22 26 48
Deut. 2 1 3
Josh. 9 5 14
Judg. 7 2 9
1 Sam. 6 2 8
2 Sam. 2 4 6
1 Kgs. 20 8 28
2 Kgs. 2 9 11
1 Chr. 33 20 53
2 Chr. 7 12 19
Ezra 9 3 12
Neh. 8 5 13
Esth. 0 6 6
Job 2 1 3
Ps. 0 1 1
Prov. 5 0 5
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 2 2 4
Jer. 6 9 15
Ezek. 47 8 55
Dan. 14 7 21
Amos 8 0 8
Hag. 4 0 4
Zech. 6 4 10
NT 54 23 77
BM 48 31 79
DC 32 17 49
PGP 10 7 17
TOTAL 418 241 659

Ezek. 1:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezek. 1:5
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

Ezek. 1:6
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

Ezek. 1:8
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

Ezek. 1:10
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

Ezek. 1:15
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

Ezek. 1:16
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Ezek. 1:17
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

Ezek. 1:18
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

Ezek. 7:2
Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

Ezek. 10:9
And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

Ezek. 10:10
And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

Ezek. 10:11
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

Ezek. 10:12
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

Ezek. 10:14
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

Ezek. 10:21
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

Ezek. 14:21
For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

Ezek. 37:9
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

Ezek. 40:1
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.

Ezek. 40:41
Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.

Ezek. 40:42
And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

Ezek. 40:47
So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.

Ezek. 41:5
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

Ezek. 42:20
He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

Ezek. 43:14
And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

Ezek. 43:15
So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

Ezek. 43:16
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

Ezek. 43:17
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

Ezek. 43:20
And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

Ezek. 45:19
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

Ezek. 45:21
In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Ezek. 46:21
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

Ezek. 46:22
In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

Ezek. 46:23
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.

Ezek. 48:16
And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

Ezek. 48:20
All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.

Ezek. 48:30
And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

Ezek. 48:32
And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.

Ezek. 48:33
And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

Ezek. 48:34
At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.