Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'prophet' occurs 330 times in the standard works.

95 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'prophet' in the standard works and contain 28.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 41 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 28:5-29:1 (16 in 14 verses)

1 Ne. 19:11-17 (7 in 7 verses)


Deut. 18:18-22 (5 in 5 verses)

 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.




1 Ne. 19:23-24 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 14:7-10 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 22:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 10:41 (3 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:46-47 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 6:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 12:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 11:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 1:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 25:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 29:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 37:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 38:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 9:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 3:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 8:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:63-64 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 171 156 327
Gen. 1 0 1
Ex. 1 1 2
Num. 1 1 2
Deut. 10 0 10
Judg. 1 1 2
1 Sam. 3 9 12
2 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 29 21 50
2 Kgs. 13 21 34
1 Chr. 2 1 3
2 Chr. 16 11 27
Ezra 2 3 5
Neh. 0 6 6
Ps. 1 1 2
Isa. 6 3 9
Jer. 53 45 98
Lam. 1 3 4
Ezek. 8 8 16
Dan. 1 2 3
Hosea 5 3 8
Amos 2 3 5
Micah 1 3 4
Hab. 2 0 2
Zeph. 0 1 1
Hag. 5 0 5
Zech. 3 9 12
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 72 91 163
BM 64 123 187
DC 19 43 62
PGP 4 4 8
TOTAL 330 417 747

Deut. 13:1
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

Deut. 13:3
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deut. 13:5
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

Deut. 18:15
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Deut. 18:18
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Deut. 18:20
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

Deut. 18:22
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Deut. 34:10
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,