Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'word' occurs 1139 times in the standard works.

349 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'word' in the standard works and contain 30.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 143 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mark 4:14-20 (8 in 7 verses)

Jacob 2:8-12 (7 in 5 verses)

Matt. 13:19-23 (6 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 12:25-13:2 (6 in 6 verses)

1 Ne. 17:26-31 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 11:21-22 (5 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:14-17 (5 in 4 verses)

Alma 12:9-13 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 15:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 4:19-5:1 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 42:31-43:2 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 6:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 23:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 31:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

John 1:1 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 2:13 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 3:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 35:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 7:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 21:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 40:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 16:34-17:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 119:41-43 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 119:160-162 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 1:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 32:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 20:45-47 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 8:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

James 1:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Pet. 1:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Pet. 1:25-2:2 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 29:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 32:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 32:40-42 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 34:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 27:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 13:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 22:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 56:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 105:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 66:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 23:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 10:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 3:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:46 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 28:29 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 29:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 19:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 12:20 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 11:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 60:14 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 90:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 112:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:13 (2 in 1 verse)

A of F 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 9:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)


Deut. 18:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

 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?




1 Sam. 3:21-4:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 17:24-18:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 36:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:81-82 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:147-148 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:169-170 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 147:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 28:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 5:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 13:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 20:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 22:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 26:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 34:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 10:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 13:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 15:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Col. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Thes. 2:17-3:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 6:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jarom 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 25:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:57-58 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 21:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 35:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 38:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 41:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 45:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 19:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 60:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 89:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 96:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 112:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 492 866 1358
Gen. 7 24 31
Ex. 8 26 34
Lev. 1 7 8
Num. 19 15 34
Deut. 12 48 60
Josh. 9 25 34
Judg. 0 29 29
1 Sam. 9 43 52
2 Sam. 14 26 40
1 Kgs. 49 20 69
2 Kgs. 22 27 49
1 Chr. 12 14 26
2 Chr. 15 26 41
Ezra 3 3 6
Neh. 1 13 14
Esth. 2 5 7
Job 1 55 56
Ps. 60 46 106
Prov. 6 44 50
Eccl. 1 13 14
Song. 0 2 2
Isa. 28 39 67
Jer. 98 154 252
Lam. 1 4 5
Ezek. 69 99 168
Dan. 5 16 21
Hosea 3 8 11
Joel 2 2 4
Amos 6 11 17
Jonah 4 0 4
Micah 2 5 7
Nahum 0 3 3
Hab. 1 0 1
Zeph. 2 1 3
Hag. 6 2 8
Zech. 13 9 22
Mal. 1 2 3
NT 207 134 341
BM 315 799 1114
DC 115 141 256
PGP 10 27 37
TOTAL 1139 1967 3106

Deut. 1:1
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Deut. 1:22
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

Deut. 1:25
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.

Deut. 1:34
And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

Deut. 2:26
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

Deut. 4:2
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Deut. 4:10
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

Deut. 4:12
And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

Deut. 4:36
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Deut. 5:5
(I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

Deut. 5:22
These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

Deut. 5:28
And the Lord heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.

Deut. 6:6
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

Deut. 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deut. 9:5
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deut. 9:10
And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Deut. 10:2
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

Deut. 11:18
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deut. 12:28
Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

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. 13:15
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Deut. 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Deut. 17:19
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

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. 18:19
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.

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

Deut. 20:13
And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Deut. 21:5
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the Lord; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:

Deut. 27:3
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

Deut. 27:8
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

Deut. 27:26
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deut. 28:14
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deut. 28:22
The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

Deut. 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

Deut. 28:58
If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, The Lord Thy God;

Deut. 29:1
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Deut. 29:9
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

Deut. 29:19
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

Deut. 29:29
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deut. 30:14
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

Deut. 31:1
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.

Deut. 31:12
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Deut. 31:24
And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

Deut. 31:28
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

Deut. 31:30
And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

Deut. 32:1
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deut. 32:25
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Deut. 32:41
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Deut. 32:42
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

Deut. 32:44
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

Deut. 32:45
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

Deut. 32:46
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

Deut. 33:3
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

Deut. 33:9
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Deut. 33:29
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Deut. 34:5
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.