Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sheep' occurs 218 times in the standard works.

73 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sheep' in the standard works and contain 33.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 35 minutes to read the entire list.

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John 10:2-16 (15 in 15 verses)

Gen. 29:6-10 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 22:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 34:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)


1 Sam. 25:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

 25:2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

 25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.




Alma 5:37-39 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 30:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 22:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 29:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 30:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 22:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 31:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 18:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 53:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

John 10:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

John 21:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:59-60 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:24-16:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:59-60 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 145 10 155
Gen. 17 1 18
Ex. 11 0 11
Lev. 6 0 6
Num. 10 1 11
Deut. 13 0 13
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 1 1 2
1 Sam. 21 1 22
2 Sam. 3 3 6
1 Kgs. 7 0 7
2 Kgs. 1 1 2
1 Chr. 4 1 5
2 Chr. 10 0 10
Neh. 4 0 4
Job 4 0 4
Ps. 11 1 12
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 5 0 5
Jer. 4 0 4
Ezek. 4 0 4
Hosea 1 0 1
Joel 1 0 1
Micah 2 0 2
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 43 2 45
BM 26 0 26
DC 3 0 3
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 218 12 230

1 Sam. 8:17
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

1 Sam. 14:32
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

1 Sam. 14:34
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

1 Sam. 15:3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Sam. 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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?

1 Sam. 15:15
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

1 Sam. 15:21
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.

1 Sam. 16:11
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

1 Sam. 16:19
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

1 Sam. 17:15
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

1 Sam. 17:20
And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.

1 Sam. 17:28
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

1 Sam. 17:34
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

1 Sam. 22:19
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

1 Sam. 24:3
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

1 Sam. 25:2
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Sam. 25:4
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

1 Sam. 25:16
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

1 Sam. 25:18
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

1 Sam. 27:9
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.