Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'hands' occurs 820 times in the standard works.

166 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'hands' in the standard works and contain 20.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 66 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 124:67-73 (8 in 7 verses)

3 Ne. 11:14-15 (5 in 2 verses)

Gen. 27:22-23 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

JS-H 1:68-71 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 17:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 25:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 29:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 8:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

Judg. 7:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Prov. 31:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Acts 8:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

W of M 1:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 43:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 44:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 52:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 2:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 68:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 98:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 49:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 17:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 2:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 10:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 4:34 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 13:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 6:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 90:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 1:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 38:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 14:58 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 21:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:36 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 56:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 37:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 21:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 12:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 25:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 6:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 28:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 143:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 45:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 24:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 11:30-12:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 17:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 13:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 27:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 23:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 115:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:111-112 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 129:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 3:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 3:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

A of F 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 354 1 355
NT 107 0 107
BM 196 0 196
1 Ne. 23 0 23
2 Ne. 10 0 10
Jacob 2 0 2
Jarom 1 0 1
Omni 3 0 3
W of M 5 0 5
Mosiah 34 0 34
Alma 80 0 80
Hel. 10 0 10
3 Ne. 14 0 14
Morm. 6 0 6
Ether 4 0 4
Moro. 4 0 4
DC 133 0 133
PGP 30 0 30
TOTAL 820 1 821

3 Ne. 3:15
Yea, he said unto them: As the Lord liveth, except ye repent of all your iniquities, and cry unto the Lord, ye will in nowise be delivered out of the hands of those Gadianton robbers.

3 Ne. 3:21
But Gidgiddoni saith unto them: The Lord forbid; for if we should go up against them the Lord would deliver us into their hands; therefore we will prepare ourselves in the center of our lands, and we will gather all our armies together, and we will not go against them, but we will wait till they shall come against us; therefore as the Lord liveth, if we do this he will deliver them into our hands.

3 Ne. 4:8
And it came to pass that the armies of the Nephites, when they saw the appearance of the army of Giddianhi, had all fallen to the earth, and did lift their cries to the Lord their God, that he would spare them and deliver them out of the hands of their enemies.

3 Ne. 4:13
And it came to pass that Gidgiddoni commanded that his armies should pursue them as far as the borders of the wilderness, and that they should not spare any that should fall into their hands by the way; and thus they did pursue them and did slay them, to the borders of the wilderness, even until they had fulfilled the commandment of Gidgiddoni.

3 Ne. 4:31
And it came to pass that they did break forth, all as one, in singing, and praising their God for the great thing which he had done for them, in preserving them from falling into the hands of their enemies.

3 Ne. 4:33
And their hearts were swollen with joy, unto the gushing out of many tears, because of the great goodness of God in delivering them out of the hands of their enemies; and they knew it was because of their repentance and their humility that they had been delivered from an everlasting destruction.

3 Ne. 5:11
And behold, I do make the record on plates which I have made with mine own hands.

3 Ne. 11:14
Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.

3 Ne. 11:15
And it came to pass that the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was written by the prophets, that should come.

3 Ne. 21:17
Thy graven images I will also cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee, and thou shalt no more worship the works of thy hands;