Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'silence' occurs 41 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'silence' in the standard works and contain 14.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 15:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 10:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 25 0 25
NT 10 0 10
BM 4 1 5
Alma 2 1 3
3 Ne. 2 0 2
DC 2 0 2
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 41 1 42

Alma 51:7
And it came to pass that this matter of their contention was settled by the voice of the people. And it came to pass that the voice of the people came in favor of the freemen, and Pahoran retained the judgment-seat, which caused much rejoicing among the brethren of Pahoran and also many of the people of liberty, who also put the king-men to silence, that they durst not oppose but were obliged to maintain the cause of freedom.

Alma 55:17
Yea, even to their women, and all those of their children, as many as were able to use a weapon of war, when Moroni had armed all those prisoners; and all those things were done in a profound silence.

3 Ne. 10:1
And now behold, it came to pass that all the people of the land did hear these sayings, and did witness of it. And after these sayings there was silence in the land for the space of many hours;

3 Ne. 10:2
For so great was the astonishment of the people that they did cease lamenting and howling for the loss of their kindred which had been slain; therefore there was silence in all the land for the space of many hours.