Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'lad' occurs 35 times in the standard works.

24 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'lad' in the standard works and contain 68.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 20:35-41 (10 in 7 verses)

Gen. 44:30-34 (7 in 5 verses)


Gen. 21:17-20 (5 in 4 verses)

 21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

 21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

 21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.




1 Sam. 20:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 33 142 175
Gen. 18 7 25
Ex. 0 1 1
Num. 0 1 1
Deut. 0 1 1
Josh. 0 4 4
Judg. 1 4 5
1 Sam. 12 2 14
2 Sam. 1 1 2
1 Kgs. 0 3 3
2 Kgs. 1 2 3
1 Chr. 0 6 6
2 Chr. 0 4 4
Neh. 0 5 5
Esth. 0 8 8
Job 0 3 3
Ps. 0 41 41
Prov. 0 8 8
Song. 0 2 2
Isa. 0 17 17
Jer. 0 9 9
Lam. 0 2 2
Dan. 0 1 1
Hosea 0 1 1
Joel 0 3 3
Jonah 0 1 1
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 0 2 2
NT 1 48 49
BM 0 35 35
DC 0 31 31
PGP 1 2 3
TOTAL 35 258 293

Gen. 21:12
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

Gen. 21:17
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Gen. 21:18
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

Gen. 21:19
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

Gen. 21:20
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Gen. 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

Gen. 22:12
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

Gen. 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Gen. 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

Gen. 42:26
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

Gen. 43:8
And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

Gen. 44:13
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

Gen. 44:22
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

Gen. 44:30
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

Gen. 44:31
It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

Gen. 44:32
For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

Gen. 44:33
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

Gen. 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Gen. 45:17
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

Gen. 45:23
And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

Gen. 48:16
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.