Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sleep' occurs 105 times in the standard works.

38 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sleep' in the standard works and contain 36.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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Prov. 6:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)

 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:





1 Thes. 5:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.





John 11:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.





Ps. 13:3 (2 in 1 verse)

 13:3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;





Prov. 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.





Prov. 24:33 (2 in 1 verse)

 24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:





Eccl. 5:12 (2 in 1 verse)

 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.





Jer. 51:39 (2 in 1 verse)

 51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.





Jer. 51:57 (2 in 1 verse)

 51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.





Acts 20:9 (2 in 1 verse)

 20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.





2 Ne. 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

 1:13 O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe.





Mosiah 24:19 (2 in 1 verse)

 24:19 And in the morning the Lord caused a deep sleep to come upon the Lamanites, yea, and all their task-masters were in a profound sleep.





Morm. 9:13 (2 in 1 verse)

 9:13 And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death.





Deut. 24:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

 24:12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

 24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.





Judg. 16:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.





Ps. 76:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

 76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.





Alma 55:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

 55:15 And now when Laman and his men saw that they were all drunken, and were in a deep sleep, they returned to Moroni and told him all the things that had happened.

 55:16 And now this was according to the design of Moroni. And Moroni had prepared his men with weapons of war; and he went to the city Gid, while the Lamanites were in a deep sleep and drunken, and cast in weapons of war unto the prisoners, insomuch that they were all armed;




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 61 12 73
Gen. 5 0 5
Ex. 1 0 1
Deut. 3 0 3
Judg. 3 1 4
1 Sam. 2 2 4
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 1 1 2
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 4 0 4
Ps. 10 1 11
Prov. 12 2 14
Eccl. 3 0 3
Song. 1 1 2
Isa. 2 1 3
Jer. 5 0 5
Ezek. 1 0 1
Dan. 5 0 5
Hosea 0 1 1
Jonah 0 2 2
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 21 22 43
BM 16 4 20
DC 4 5 9
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 105 43 148

Ps. 4:8
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Ps. 13:3
Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Ps. 44:23
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Ps. 76:5
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

Ps. 76:6
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Ps. 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

Ps. 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Ps. 121:4
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

Ps. 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Ps. 132:4
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,