Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'number' occurs 284 times in the standard works.

80 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'number' in the standard works and contain 28.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 28 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rev. 13:17-18 (4 in 2 verses)

Ether 6:19-21 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 24:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 44:21 (3 in 1 verse)

Morm. 1:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 25:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 21:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 24:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 3:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 3:40 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 15:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 16:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 11:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 21:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 3:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 52:40 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 11:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 4:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 102:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 4:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 26:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 65:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 4:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 55:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 154 131 285
Gen. 4 4 8
Ex. 4 6 10
Lev. 9 0 9
Num. 44 83 127
Deut. 7 0 7
Josh. 2 1 3
Judg. 4 4 8
1 Sam. 3 4 7
2 Sam. 7 2 9
1 Kgs. 2 6 8
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 18 4 22
2 Chr. 6 6 12
Ezra 5 1 6
Neh. 1 0 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 14 1 15
Ps. 5 2 7
Eccl. 0 1 1
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 4 2 6
Jer. 5 1 6
Ezek. 4 0 4
Dan. 1 1 2
Hosea 1 1 2
Joel 1 0 1
Nahum 1 0 1
NT 24 5 29
BM 90 69 159
DC 9 3 12
PGP 7 7 14
TOTAL 284 215 499

1 Chr. 7:2
And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

1 Chr. 7:9
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.

1 Chr. 7:40
All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

1 Chr. 11:11
And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

1 Chr. 21:1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

1 Chr. 21:2
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

1 Chr. 21:5
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

1 Chr. 22:16
Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee.

1 Chr. 23:3
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

1 Chr. 23:24
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and upward.

1 Chr. 23:31
And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the Lord in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the Lord:

1 Chr. 25:1
Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

1 Chr. 25:7
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.

1 Chr. 27:1
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.

1 Chr. 27:23
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

1 Chr. 27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.