Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'dry' occurs 92 times in the standard works.

20 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'dry' in the standard works and contain 21.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 42:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 44:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 2:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 4:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 67 2 69
NT 4 2 6
BM 11 0 11
1 Ne. 2 0 2
2 Ne. 2 0 2
Mosiah 4 0 4
Hel. 2 0 2
3 Ne. 1 0 1
DC 6 1 7
PGP 4 0 4
TOTAL 92 5 97

1 Ne. 4:2
Therefore let us go up; let us be strong like unto Moses; for he truly spake unto the waters of the Red Sea and they divided hither and thither, and our fathers came through, out of captivity, on dry ground, and the armies of Pharaoh did follow and were drowned in the waters of the Red Sea.

1 Ne. 17:26
Now ye know that Moses was commanded of the Lord to do that great work; and ye know that by his word the waters of the Red Sea were divided hither and thither, and they passed through on dry ground.

2 Ne. 7:2
Wherefore, when I came, there was no man; when I called, yea, there was none to answer. O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink because the waters are dried up, and they die because of thirst.

2 Ne. 21:15
And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind he shall shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry shod.

Mosiah 7:19
Therefore, lift up your heads, and rejoice, and put your trust in God, in that God who was the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and also, that God who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, and caused that they should walk through the Red Sea on dry ground, and fed them with manna that they might not perish in the wilderness; and many more things did he do for them.

Mosiah 12:11
And again, he saith that thou shalt be as a stalk, even as a dry stalk of the field, which is run over by the beasts and trodden under foot.

Mosiah 14:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Mosiah 21:26
Nevertheless, they did find a land which had been peopled; yea, a land which was covered with dry bones; yea, a land which had been peopled and which had been destroyed; and they, having supposed it to be the land of Zarahemla, returned to the land of Nephi, having arrived in the borders of the land not many days before the coming of Ammon.

Hel. 8:11
Therefore he was constrained to speak more unto them saying: Behold, my brethren, have ye not read that God gave power unto one man, even Moses, to smite upon the waters of the Red Sea, and they parted hither and thither, insomuch that the Israelites, who were our fathers, came through upon dry ground, and the waters closed upon the armies of the Egyptians and swallowed them up?

Hel. 11:6
And this work of destruction did also continue in the seventy and fifth year. For the earth was smitten that it was dry, and did not yield forth grain in the season of grain; and the whole earth was smitten, even among the Lamanites as well as among the Nephites, so that they were smitten that they did perish by thousands in the more wicked parts of the land.

3 Ne. 8:21
And there could be no light, because of the darkness, neither candles, neither torches; neither could there be fire kindled with their fine and exceedingly dry wood, so that there could not be any light at all;