Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mean' occurs 44 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 'mean' in the standard works and contain 13.6% 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. 15:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 2:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 13 24 37
Gen. 1 2 3
Ex. 1 1 2
Num. 0 1 1
Deut. 1 1 2
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 0 2 2
1 Sam. 0 3 3
2 Sam. 0 2 2
1 Kgs. 1 2 3
2 Chr. 0 1 1
Ezra 0 1 1
Ps. 0 1 1
Prov. 1 1 2
Isa. 4 1 5
Jer. 0 1 1
Ezek. 2 1 3
Dan. 0 1 1
Jonah 0 1 1
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 9 29 38
BM 21 72 93
DC 1 16 17
PGP 0 3 3
TOTAL 44 144 188

Gen. 33:8
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

Gen. 50:20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Ex. 34:7
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Num. 14:18
The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Deut. 29:24
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Judg. 5:22
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

Judg. 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

1 Sam. 4:6
And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.

1 Sam. 4:14
And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.

1 Sam. 15:14
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

2 Sam. 14:14
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

2 Sam. 16:2
And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

1 Kgs. 10:29
And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

1 Kgs. 20:39
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

2 Chr. 1:17
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

Ezra 4:16
We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

Ps. 49:7
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Prov. 6:26
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Isa. 10:7
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Jer. 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Ezek. 37:18
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

Dan. 8:15
And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.

Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Mal. 1:9
And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the Lord of hosts.