Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'young' occurs 347 times in the standard works.

76 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'young' in the standard works and contain 21.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 32 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 25:5-9 (5 in 5 verses)

Deut. 22:6-7 (4 in 2 verses)

Matt. 2:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 2:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 9:54 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 18:32 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 36:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 14:51 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 11:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 17:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 21:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 39:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 31:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 5:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 19:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

 19:2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

 19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.




Ezek. 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 23:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 21:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 30:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 266 40 306
Gen. 12 25 37
Ex. 5 0 5
Lev. 15 0 15
Num. 26 0 26
Deut. 8 0 8
Josh. 2 1 3
Judg. 13 4 17
Ruth 6 0 6
1 Sam. 23 3 26
2 Sam. 18 0 18
1 Kgs. 9 1 10
2 Kgs. 6 0 6
1 Chr. 3 1 4
2 Chr. 8 2 10
Ezra 1 0 1
Esth. 4 0 4
Job 11 1 12
Ps. 13 0 13
Prov. 4 0 4
Eccl. 1 0 1
Song. 5 0 5
Isa. 16 0 16
Jer. 14 0 14
Lam. 9 0 9
Ezek. 20 2 22
Hosea 1 0 1
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 4 0 4
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 3 0 3
Zech. 4 0 4
NT 34 9 43
BM 36 10 46
DC 8 0 8
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 347 59 406

Ezek. 9:6
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Ezek. 16:46
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Ezek. 16:61
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

Ezek. 17:4
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

Ezek. 17:22
Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:

Ezek. 19:2
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

Ezek. 19:3
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

Ezek. 19:5
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

Ezek. 19:6
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

Ezek. 23:6
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

Ezek. 23:12
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

Ezek. 23:23
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

Ezek. 30:17
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

Ezek. 31:6
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

Ezek. 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Ezek. 38:13
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

Ezek. 41:19
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

Ezek. 43:19
And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.

Ezek. 43:23
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

Ezek. 43:25
Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

Ezek. 45:18
Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

Ezek. 46:6
And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.