Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ishmael' occurs 90 times in the standard works.

55 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ishmael' in the standard works and contain 61.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 23 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 40:14-41:16 (19 in 19 verses)

1 Ne. 7:2-6 (7 in 5 verses)

Alma 17:19-21 (5 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 16:7 (3 in 1 verse)


Gen. 25:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

 25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

 25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,




Gen. 28:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 7:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 16:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 17:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 25:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 1:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 21:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 48 3 51
Gen. 17 0 17
Judg. 0 1 1
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 5 1 6
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Ezra 1 0 1
Ps. 0 1 1
Jer. 21 0 21
NT 0 0 0
BM 42 6 48
DC 0 1 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 90 10 100

Gen. 16:11
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

Gen. 16:15
And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

Gen. 16:16
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

Gen. 17:18
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

Gen. 17:20
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

Gen. 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

Gen. 17:25
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Gen. 17:26
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Gen. 25:9
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

Gen. 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

Gen. 25:13
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

Gen. 25:16
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

Gen. 25:17
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

Gen. 28:9
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

Gen. 36:3
And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.