Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'hand' occurs 1789 times in the standard works.

655 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'hand' in the standard works and contain 36.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 263 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 3:19-4:7 (11 in 11 verses)

Gen. 48:13-22 (10 in 10 verses)

2 Chr. 32:13-22 (10 in 10 verses)

Ps. 144:7-11 (7 in 5 verses)

1 Sam. 24:10-15 (7 in 6 verses)

D&C 84:6-12 (7 in 7 verses)

Lev. 14:14-18 (6 in 5 verses)

Lev. 14:25-29 (6 in 5 verses)

Jer. 22:24-25 (5 in 2 verses)

Jer. 34:20-21 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:9-11 (5 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 21:20-22:1 (5 in 4 verses)

2 Sam. 24:14-17 (5 in 4 verses)

Deut. 15:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Chr. 21:13-17 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 18:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)

Josh. 8:18-19 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 38:28-30 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 18:33-35 (4 in 3 verses)

Isa. 36:18-20 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 21:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 46:24-26 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 9:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

Judg. 7:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Judg. 15:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 26:23-27:1 (4 in 4 verses)

Neh. 9:27-30 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 38:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 37:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Mark 10:37-40 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 19:16 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 3:18 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 18:2 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 44:30 (3 in 1 verse)

Zech. 11:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:13 (3 in 1 verse)

Deut. 25:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 21:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 14:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 118:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 9:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 34:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 19:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 19:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 32:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 38:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 40:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 41:42-44 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 13:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 17:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 32:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 3:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 12:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 28:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 28:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 18:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 13:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 20:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 26:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 8:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 80:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 6:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 51:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 18:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 13:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 30:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 40:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 3:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 6:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 8:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 10:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 29:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:46-48 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:50-52 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 13:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 16:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 43:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 6:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 13:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 21:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 13:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 19:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 5:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 6:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 10:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:40 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 18:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 18:17 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 19:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 22:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 5:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 14:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 19:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 23:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 23:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 10:15 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 13:16 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 13:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 15:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 16:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 11:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 29:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 21:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 28:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 34:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 8:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 6:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 23:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 21:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 31:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 71:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 74:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 89:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 89:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 106:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 123:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 138:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 139:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 10:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 11:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 16:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 2:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 8:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 48:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 62:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 15:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 26:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 32:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 36:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 38:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:46 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 23:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 23:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 39:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 5:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 12:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jonah 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 6:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 13:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 20:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 4:4 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 13:3 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 26:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 36:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 49:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:60 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 24:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 39:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 39:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 39:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 4:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 7:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 8:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 10:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 33:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 12:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 23:25-24:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 33:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 9:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 24:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 2:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 8:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 15:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 5:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 26:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)


1 Kgs. 11:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

 11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

 11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.




2 Kgs. 18:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 13:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 4:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 16:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 1:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 2:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 44:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 106:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 109:31-110:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 10:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 10:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 11:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 14:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 51:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 9:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 10:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 25:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 28:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 30:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 5:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 26:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

John 10:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 2:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 7:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:20-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:53-54 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 20:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 21:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 24:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 5:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 17:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 15:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 1:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 39:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 85:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 129:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:56-57 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 1310 464 1774
Gen. 88 31 119
Ex. 88 20 108
Lev. 31 18 49
Num. 36 7 43
Deut. 68 21 89
Josh. 36 1 37
Judg. 65 29 94
Ruth 3 5 8
1 Sam. 102 23 125
2 Sam. 54 20 74
1 Kgs. 36 10 46
2 Kgs. 56 16 72
1 Chr. 32 6 38
2 Chr. 59 14 73
Ezra 16 6 22
Neh. 14 7 21
Esth. 9 4 13
Job 45 20 65
Ps. 97 52 149
Prov. 25 20 45
Eccl. 8 7 15
Song. 5 4 9
Isa. 82 30 112
Jer. 88 30 118
Lam. 11 9 20
Ezek. 96 32 128
Dan. 21 4 25
Hosea 3 1 4
Joel 3 1 4
Amos 4 1 5
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 2 1 3
Micah 5 2 7
Nahum 0 1 1
Hab. 2 1 3
Zeph. 4 1 5
Hag. 0 3 3
Zech. 13 5 18
Mal. 3 0 3
NT 158 128 286
BM 195 220 415
DC 105 150 255
PGP 21 31 52
TOTAL 1789 993 2782

1 Kgs. 1:13
Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

1 Kgs. 1:17
And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

1 Kgs. 2:19
Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

1 Kgs. 2:25
And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

1 Kgs. 2:46
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

1 Kgs. 3:20
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kgs. 7:26
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

1 Kgs. 8:15
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

1 Kgs. 8:22
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

1 Kgs. 8:24
Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

1 Kgs. 8:38
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

1 Kgs. 8:42
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

1 Kgs. 8:53
For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

1 Kgs. 8:54
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

1 Kgs. 8:56
Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

1 Kgs. 11:12
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

1 Kgs. 11:26
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.

1 Kgs. 11:27
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

1 Kgs. 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

1 Kgs. 11:34
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

1 Kgs. 11:35
But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

1 Kgs. 13:4
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

1 Kgs. 13:6
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the Lord, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

1 Kgs. 14:18
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

1 Kgs. 14:27
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

1 Kgs. 15:18
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

1 Kgs. 16:7
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.

1 Kgs. 17:11
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

1 Kgs. 17:12
And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

1 Kgs. 18:9
And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

1 Kgs. 18:44
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

1 Kgs. 18:46
And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

1 Kgs. 20:6
Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.

1 Kgs. 20:10
And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

1 Kgs. 20:13
And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

1 Kgs. 20:28
And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

1 Kgs. 20:42
And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

1 Kgs. 22:3
And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?

1 Kgs. 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

1 Kgs. 22:12
And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hand.

1 Kgs. 22:15
So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

1 Kgs. 22:19
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

1 Kgs. 22:34
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.