Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'friend' occurs 61 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'friend' in the standard works and contain 24.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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Luke 11:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Sam. 16:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Prov. 27:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Prov. 6:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 17:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 37 34 71
Gen. 2 1 3
Ex. 1 0 1
Deut. 1 0 1
Judg. 1 1 2
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 0 1 1
2 Sam. 5 2 7
1 Kgs. 1 1 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Esth. 0 3 3
Job 2 9 11
Ps. 3 1 4
Prov. 14 8 22
Song. 1 1 2
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 2 3 5
Lam. 0 1 1
Hosea 1 0 1
Micah 1 0 1
Zech. 0 1 1
NT 16 20 36
BM 5 23 28
DC 2 26 28
PGP 1 2 3
TOTAL 61 105 166

Gen. 38:12
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Gen. 38:20
And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.

Ex. 33:11
And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

Deut. 13:6
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

Judg. 14:20
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

2 Sam. 13:3
But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

2 Sam. 15:37
So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

2 Sam. 16:16
And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.

2 Sam. 16:17
And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

1 Kgs. 4:5
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:

2 Chr. 20:7
Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

Job 6:14
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

Ps. 35:14
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Ps. 41:9
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Ps. 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Prov. 6:1
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Prov. 6:3
Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Prov. 17:17
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Prov. 17:18
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

Prov. 18:24
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Prov. 19:6
Many will entreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Prov. 22:11
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

Prov. 27:6
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Prov. 27:9
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Prov. 27:10
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Prov. 27:14
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

Prov. 27:17
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Song. 5:16
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Isa. 41:8
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

Jer. 6:21
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Jer. 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Hosea 3:1
Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

Micah 7:5
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.