Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'where' occurs 513 times in the standard works.

127 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'where' in the standard works and contain 24.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 44 minutes to read the entire list.

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Matt. 6:19-21 (5 in 3 verses)

Matt. 25:24-26 (4 in 3 verses)

Luke 22:9-11 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 13:19-21 (4 in 3 verses)

Job 38:19 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 33:18 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 1:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Rev. 2:13 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:25 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 134:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 35:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 2:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 14:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 12:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 31:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 26:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 18:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 21:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 28:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 69:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 26:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 19:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 36:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 63:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 66:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 46:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Mal. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 15:55 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 20:84 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 121:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 17:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 4:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:57-12:1 (2 in 2 verses)

John 20:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 7:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:65-66 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 90:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 130:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 264 617 881
Gen. 25 33 58
Ex. 13 28 41
Lev. 7 28 35
Num. 6 57 63
Deut. 7 27 34
Josh. 4 19 23
Judg. 8 19 27
Ruth 6 1 7
1 Sam. 18 44 62
2 Sam. 12 29 41
1 Kgs. 6 25 31
2 Kgs. 11 23 34
1 Chr. 4 6 10
2 Chr. 3 28 31
Ezra 3 1 4
Neh. 2 7 9
Esth. 2 7 9
Job 26 20 46
Ps. 15 28 43
Prov. 6 1 7
Eccl. 4 10 14
Song. 2 4 6
Isa. 23 25 48
Jer. 19 54 73
Lam. 1 3 4
Ezek. 17 52 69
Dan. 1 13 14
Hosea 2 3 5
Joel 1 1 2
Amos 1 1 2
Jonah 0 2 2
Micah 1 2 3
Nahum 3 0 3
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 2 3
Zech. 1 3 4
Mal. 3 10 13
NT 137 244 381
BM 45 479 524
DC 52 257 309
PGP 15 44 59
TOTAL 513 1641 2154

1 Sam. 1:20
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.

1 Sam. 2:17
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

1 Sam. 2:29
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

1 Sam. 2:30
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Sam. 3:3
And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

1 Sam. 4:3
And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

1 Sam. 6:2
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

1 Sam. 6:5
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

1 Sam. 6:6
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

1 Sam. 6:14
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

1 Sam. 6:15
And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.

1 Sam. 6:18
And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the Lord: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.

1 Sam. 8:8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

1 Sam. 9:10
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.

1 Sam. 9:18
Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.

1 Sam. 9:21
And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

1 Sam. 10:5
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:

1 Sam. 10:14
And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.

1 Sam. 10:16
And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.

1 Sam. 13:2
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

1 Sam. 14:11
And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

1 Sam. 14:27
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

1 Sam. 14:38
And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

1 Sam. 15:19
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?

1 Sam. 16:19
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

1 Sam. 18:15
Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

1 Sam. 18:21
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

1 Sam. 18:27
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

1 Sam. 19:3
And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.

1 Sam. 19:5
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

1 Sam. 19:22
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.

1 Sam. 19:24
And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

1 Sam. 20:19
And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

1 Sam. 20:27
And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?

1 Sam. 20:31
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

1 Sam. 20:32
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

1 Sam. 20:33
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

1 Sam. 21:2
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.

1 Sam. 21:14
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

1 Sam. 23:22
Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.

1 Sam. 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

1 Sam. 23:25
Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

1 Sam. 23:28
Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

1 Sam. 24:3
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

1 Sam. 24:9
And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

1 Sam. 24:17
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

1 Sam. 24:19
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

1 Sam. 25:8
Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

1 Sam. 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

1 Sam. 26:5
And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

1 Sam. 26:15
And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

1 Sam. 26:16
This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the Lord's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.

1 Sam. 26:18
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

1 Sam. 27:6
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

1 Sam. 28:9
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

1 Sam. 28:16
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

1 Sam. 29:4
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

1 Sam. 29:7
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

1 Sam. 29:10
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

1 Sam. 30:9
So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

1 Sam. 30:31
And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.