Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'devour' occurs 80 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'devour' in the standard works and contain 5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 18:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 63 65 128
NT 8 6 14
BM 8 8 16
1 Ne. 0 1 1
2 Ne. 3 2 5
Mosiah 2 1 3
Alma 1 1 2
3 Ne. 0 2 2
Ether 1 1 2
Moro. 1 0 1
DC 1 2 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 80 81 161

3 Ne. 6:2
And it came to pass that they had not eaten up all their provisions; therefore they did take with them all that they had not devoured, of all their grain of every kind, and their gold, and their silver, and all their precious things, and they did return to their own lands and their possessions, both on the north and on the south, both on the land northward and on the land southward.

3 Ne. 24:11
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the fields, saith the Lord of Hosts.