Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'away' occurs 1369 times in the standard works.

430 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'away' in the standard works and contain 31.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 178 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 1:29-2:10 (12 in 12 verses)

Alma 24:10-16 (7 in 7 verses)

4 Ne. 1:14-18 (6 in 5 verses)

Gen. 31:26-27 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:26-29 (5 in 4 verses)

Jacob 5:65-69 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 39:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

Matt. 19:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 6:17-7:1 (4 in 3 verses)

4 Ne. 1:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Abr. 1:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 3:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Job 12:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)


Jer. 29:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

 29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

 29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

 29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

 29:4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;




Jer. 52:27-30 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 17:43-46 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Esth. 2:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:35-36 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

John 19:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 26:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 58:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 5:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 49:25-50:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 13:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 18:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 1:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 26:42-44 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Cor. 3:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 15:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 19:21-20:2 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 20:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:73-75 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 7:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Omni 1:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 30:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 11:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 1:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 45:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 13:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 30:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 18:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 20:34 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 25:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 12:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 20:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 28:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 30:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 20:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 34:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 68:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 1:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 24:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 25:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 57:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 29:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 39:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 40:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 41:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 38:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 44:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 5:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 24:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 13:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 9:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 16:18 (2 in 1 verse)

John 16:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 22:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 19:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 61:4 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:7 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 8:16 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 10:9 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 56:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 28:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 26:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 24:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 25:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 30:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 9:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 14:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 24:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 27:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 39:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 78:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 90:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 19:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 59:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 37:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 46:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 52:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 23:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 14:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 12:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 16:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 6:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

John 20:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 11:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 11:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

James 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:20-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:30-15:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 74:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 109:52-53 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 2:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 704 0 704
Gen. 39 0 39
Ex. 17 0 17
Lev. 20 0 20
Num. 12 0 12
Deut. 30 0 30
Josh. 12 0 12
Judg. 18 0 18
1 Sam. 28 0 28
2 Sam. 22 0 22
1 Kgs. 29 0 29
2 Kgs. 35 0 35
1 Chr. 14 0 14
2 Chr. 39 0 39
Ezra 9 0 9
Neh. 2 0 2
Esth. 5 0 5
Job 48 0 48
Ps. 44 0 44
Prov. 23 0 23
Eccl. 5 0 5
Song. 6 0 6
Isa. 67 0 67
Jer. 70 0 70
Lam. 5 0 5
Ezek. 33 0 33
Dan. 12 0 12
Hosea 15 0 15
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 17 0 17
Obad. 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 4 0 4
Nahum 6 0 6
Zeph. 3 0 3
Zech. 7 0 7
Mal. 4 0 4
NT 211 1 212
BM 380 0 380
DC 55 0 55
PGP 19 0 19
TOTAL 1369 1 1370

Jer. 1:3
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

Jer. 2:24
A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Jer. 3:1
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 3:8
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Jer. 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

Jer. 4:1
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

Jer. 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jer. 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord's.

Jer. 5:25
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

Jer. 6:4
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Jer. 6:29
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Jer. 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jer. 7:33
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

Jer. 8:4
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

Jer. 8:13
I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

Jer. 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.

Jer. 13:19
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

Jer. 13:24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

Jer. 15:15
O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Jer. 16:5
For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

Jer. 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Jer. 22:10
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

Jer. 23:2
Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.

Jer. 24:1
The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Jer. 24:5
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

Jer. 27:20
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

Jer. 28:3
Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

Jer. 28:6
Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the Lord's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

Jer. 29:1
Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

Jer. 29:4
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

Jer. 29:7
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

Jer. 29:14
And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jer. 32:40
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

Jer. 33:26
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

Jer. 37:13
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

Jer. 37:14
Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Jer. 38:22
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

Jer. 39:9
Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

Jer. 40:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

Jer. 40:7
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

Jer. 41:10
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

Jer. 41:14
So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

Jer. 43:3
But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.

Jer. 43:12
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

Jer. 46:5
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.

Jer. 46:6
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

Jer. 46:15
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.

Jer. 46:21
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

Jer. 48:9
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

Jer. 49:19
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

Jer. 49:29
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

Jer. 50:6
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

Jer. 50:17
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Jer. 50:44
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

Jer. 51:50
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Jer. 52:15
Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

Jer. 52:18
The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

Jer. 52:19
And the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.

Jer. 52:27
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

Jer. 52:28
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

Jer. 52:29
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

Jer. 52:30
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.