Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wave' occurs 32 times in the standard works.

21 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wave' in the standard works and contain 65.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 29:24-27 (5 in 4 verses)

Lev. 10:14-15 (4 in 2 verses)

Num. 6:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 23:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 14:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:24 (2 in 1 verse)


Lev. 23:20 (2 in 1 verse)

 23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 31 26 57
NT 1 9 10
BM 0 8 8
DC 0 2 2
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 32 45 77

Ex. 29:24
And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.

Ex. 29:26
And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part.

Ex. 29:27
And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

Lev. 7:30
His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.

Lev. 7:34
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.

Lev. 8:27
And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the Lord.

Lev. 8:29
And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Lev. 9:21
And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.

Lev. 10:14
And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

Lev. 10:15
The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the Lord hath commanded.

Lev. 14:12
And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:

Lev. 14:21
And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;

Lev. 14:24
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:

Lev. 23:11
And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Lev. 23:12
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.

Lev. 23:15
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

Lev. 23:17
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.

Lev. 23:20
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

Num. 5:25
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:

Num. 6:20
And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.

Num. 18:11
And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

Num. 18:18
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.

2 Sam. 22:5
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

Job 9:8
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Job 38:11
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Ps. 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Ps. 65:7
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

Ps. 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Ps. 89:9
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Ps. 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Ps. 93:4
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Ps. 107:25
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Ps. 107:29
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Isa. 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Isa. 51:15
But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.

Jer. 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Jer. 31:35
Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:

Jer. 51:42
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Jer. 51:55
Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

Ezek. 26:3
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

Jonah 2:3
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Zech. 10:11
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

Matt. 8:24
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

Matt. 14:24
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.

Mark 4:37
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.

Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Acts 27:41
And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

Heb. 10:23
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

1 Ne. 20:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments-- then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

2 Ne. 8:15
But I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared; the Lord of Hosts is my name.

Jacob 4:6
Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.

Morm. 5:18
But now, behold, they are led about by Satan, even as chaff is driven before the wind, or as a vessel is tossed about upon the waves, without sail or anchor, or without anything wherewith to steer her; and even as she is, so are they.

Ether 2:24
For behold, ye shall be as a whale in the midst of the sea; for the mountain waves shall dash upon you. Nevertheless, I will bring you up again out of the depths of the sea; for the winds have gone forth out of my mouth, and also the rains and the floods have I sent forth.

Ether 2:25
And behold, I prepare you against these things; for ye cannot cross this great deep save I prepare you against the waves of the sea, and the winds which have gone forth, and the floods which shall come. Therefore what will ye that I should prepare for you that ye may have light when ye are swallowed up in the depths of the sea?

Ether 6:5
And it came to pass that the Lord God caused that there should be a furious wind blow upon the face of the waters, towards the promised land; and thus they were tossed upon the waves of the sea before the wind.

Ether 6:6
And it came to pass that they were many times buried in the depths of the sea, because of the mountain waves which broke upon them, and also the great and terrible tempests which were caused by the fierceness of the wind.

D&C 88:90
And also cometh the testimony of the voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds.

D&C 123:16
You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.