Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'saw' occurs 878 times in the standard works.

281 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'saw' in the standard works and contain 32% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 125 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 11:29-12:21 (29 in 29 verses)

1 Ne. 14:28-30 (6 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 1:6-10 (6 in 5 verses)

Dan. 8:2-7 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 31:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:65-67 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 13:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 43:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

Dan. 10:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 4:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 2:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 25:37-39 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 6:48-50 (3 in 3 verses)

John 11:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 13:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 15:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 20:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 22:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 27:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 4:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 3:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Moses 7:42-44 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 20:18 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 18:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 20:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 2:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 77:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 5:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 17:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 20:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 36:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 46:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 51:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 1:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:43 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 17:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 9:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:23 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:43 (2 in 1 verse)


Gen. 9:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.




Gen. 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 24:63-64 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 38:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 2:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 24:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 13:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 24:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 8:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 28:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 19:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 21:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 59:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 3:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 10:22-11:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 23:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 9:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 9:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 17:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 13:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 5:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 15:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 20:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 21:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 11:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 19:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 21:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 43:53-54 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 4:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 9:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 17:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 15:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:80-81 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:91-92 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 77:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 137:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 327 18 345
Gen. 57 1 58
Ex. 23 0 23
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 17 0 17
Deut. 5 0 5
Josh. 4 0 4
Judg. 18 0 18
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 28 2 30
2 Sam. 21 2 23
1 Kgs. 10 2 12
2 Kgs. 18 0 18
1 Chr. 12 1 13
2 Chr. 11 0 11
Neh. 3 0 3
Esth. 5 0 5
Job 8 0 8
Ps. 7 1 8
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 6 0 6
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 8 1 9
Jer. 5 0 5
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 23 0 23
Dan. 18 8 26
Hosea 4 0 4
Amos 2 0 2
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 1 0 1
Hab. 2 0 2
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 2 0 2
NT 221 9 230
BM 259 1 260
DC 28 2 30
PGP 43 0 43
TOTAL 878 30 908

Gen. 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Gen. 1:10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Gen. 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Gen. 1:18
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Gen. 1:21
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Gen. 1:25
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Gen. 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Gen. 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Gen. 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Gen. 6:5
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Gen. 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

Gen. 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Gen. 12:15
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Gen. 16:4
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Gen. 16:5
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.

Gen. 18:2
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

Gen. 20:10
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

Gen. 21:9
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

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. 22:4
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Gen. 24:30
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

Gen. 24:63
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

Gen. 24:64
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

Gen. 26:8
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

Gen. 26:28
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

Gen. 28:6
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Gen. 29:10
And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

Gen. 29:31
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Gen. 30:1
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Gen. 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

Gen. 31:10
And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

Gen. 32:2
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Gen. 32:25
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

Gen. 33:5
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

Gen. 34:2
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Gen. 37:4
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Gen. 37:18
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Gen. 38:2
And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

Gen. 38:14
And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

Gen. 38:15
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

Gen. 39:3
And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Gen. 39:13
And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

Gen. 40:16
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

Gen. 41:19
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

Gen. 41:22
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

Gen. 42:1
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

Gen. 42:7
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Gen. 42:21
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Gen. 42:35
And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

Gen. 43:16
And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

Gen. 43:29
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

Gen. 44:28
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

Gen. 45:27
And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

Gen. 48:17
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

Gen. 49:15
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

Gen. 50:11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

Gen. 50:15
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Gen. 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.