Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'get' occurs 198 times in the standard works.

43 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'get' in the standard works and contain 21.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 16 minutes to read the entire list.

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Prov. 4:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 32:37-38 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 8:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 14:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 10:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 16:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 22:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 24:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 27:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 6:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 7:21 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:55 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:60 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 14:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 49:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 104 574 678
Gen. 9 26 35
Ex. 10 25 35
Lev. 5 7 12
Num. 8 20 28
Deut. 8 25 33
Josh. 4 9 13
Judg. 4 21 25
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 6 29 35
2 Sam. 1 21 22
1 Kgs. 10 12 22
2 Kgs. 2 9 11
1 Chr. 0 9 9
2 Chr. 1 18 19
Ezra 0 11 11
Neh. 1 11 12
Esth. 0 10 10
Job 0 34 34
Ps. 1 80 81
Prov. 9 38 47
Eccl. 1 8 9
Song. 2 1 3
Isa. 5 72 77
Jer. 7 36 43
Lam. 1 2 3
Ezek. 4 8 12
Dan. 1 10 11
Hosea 0 5 5
Joel 1 1 2
Amos 0 3 3
Micah 0 1 1
Nahum 0 5 5
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 2 3
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 3 4
NT 14 190 204
BM 58 264 322
DC 9 102 111
PGP 13 15 28
TOTAL 198 1145 1343

Eccl. 2:6
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

Eccl. 3:5
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Eccl. 3:6
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Eccl. 4:5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Eccl. 4:11
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

Eccl. 5:14
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Eccl. 6:3
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Eccl. 7:15
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

Eccl. 10:8
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.