Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'oppressed' occurs 43 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'oppressed' in the standard works and contain 4.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 12:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 36 0 36
NT 2 0 2
BM 4 0 4
2 Ne. 1 0 1
Mosiah 3 0 3
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 43 0 43

2 Ne. 13:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.

Mosiah 13:35
Yea, and have they not said also that he should bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, and that he, himself, should be oppressed and afflicted?

Mosiah 14:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.

Mosiah 23:12
And now I say unto you, ye have been oppressed by king Noah, and have been in bondage to him and his priests, and have been brought into iniquity by them; therefore ye were bound with the bands of iniquity.