Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'neck' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

9 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'neck' in the standard works and contain 12.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 28:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 45:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 46:29 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 113:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 56 25 81
NT 6 2 8
BM 9 31 40
1 Ne. 1 1 2
2 Ne. 4 7 11
Jacob 0 3 3
Enos 0 1 1
Jarom 0 3 3
Omni 0 1 1
W of M 0 1 1
Mosiah 0 2 2
Alma 2 6 8
Hel. 0 4 4
3 Ne. 1 1 2
Morm. 0 1 1
Ether 1 0 1
DC 2 5 7
PGP 1 2 3
TOTAL 74 65 139

1 Ne. 20:4
And I did it because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

2 Ne. 8:25
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

2 Ne. 18:8
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

2 Ne. 20:27
And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

2 Ne. 26:22
And there are also secret combinations, even as in times of old, according to the combinations of the devil, for he is the founder of all these things; yea, the founder of murder, and works of darkness; yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords forever.

Alma 22:32
And now, it was only the distance of a day and a half's journey for a Nephite, on the line Bountiful and the land Desolation, from the east to the west sea; and thus the land of Nephi and the land of Zarahemla were nearly surrounded by water, there being a small neck of land between the land northward and the land southward.

Alma 63:5
And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an exceedingly curious man, therefore he went forth and built him an exceedingly large ship, on the borders of the land Bountiful, by the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by the narrow neck which led into the land northward.

3 Ne. 20:37
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Ether 10:20
And they built a great city by the narrow neck of land, by the place where the sea divides the land.