Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'hunger' occurs 46 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'hunger' in the standard works and contain 8.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 16:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 21:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 13 1 14
Ex. 1 0 1
Deut. 3 0 3
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 0 1 1
Ps. 1 0 1
Prov. 1 0 1
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 2 0 2
Lam. 2 0 2
Ezek. 1 0 1
NT 11 2 13
BM 21 4 25
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 46 7 53

Ex. 16:3
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Deut. 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deut. 28:48
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

Deut. 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

Neh. 9:15
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

Job 18:12
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Ps. 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

Prov. 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Isa. 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Jer. 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

Jer. 42:14
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

Lam. 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Lam. 4:9
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

Ezek. 34:29
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.