Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'strong' occurs 360 times in the standard works.

66 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'strong' in the standard works and contain 18.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 25 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 28:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Hag. 2:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Nahum 3:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 57:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 6:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 6:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 10:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 22:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 19:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 18:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 10:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 11:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 12:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 3:27 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:106 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 13:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 31:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 11:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 26:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 18:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 48:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 30:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 20:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 56:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 227 20 247
NT 28 3 31
BM 80 27 107
1 Ne. 2 0 2
2 Ne. 9 0 9
Jacob 2 0 2
Jarom 1 0 1
Omni 1 0 1
Mosiah 9 0 9
Alma 35 18 53
Hel. 5 6 11
3 Ne. 6 2 8
4 Ne. 2 0 2
Morm. 0 1 1
Ether 6 0 6
Moro. 2 0 2
DC 25 5 30
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 360 56 416

Alma 49:20
Thus they were prepared, yea, a body of their strongest men, with their swords and their slings, to smite down all who should attempt to come into their place of security by the place of entrance; and thus were they prepared to defend themselves against the Lamanites.

Alma 50:6
Thus Moroni did prepare strongholds against the coming of their enemies, round about every city in all the land.

Alma 50:11
And thus he cut off all the strongholds of the Lamanites in the east wilderness, yea, and also on the west, fortifying the line between the Nephites and the Lamanites, between the land of Zarahemla and the land of Nephi, from the west sea, running by the head of the river Sidon-- the Nephites possessing all the land northward, yea, even all the land which was northward of the land Bountiful, according to their pleasure.

Alma 51:27
And thus had the Lamanites obtained, by the cunning of Amalickiah, so many cities, by their numberless hosts, all of which were strongly fortified after the manner of the fortifications of Moroni; all of which afforded strongholds for the Lamanites.

Alma 52:19
And in the commencement of the twenty and eighth year, Moroni and Teancum and many of the chief captains held a council of war-- what they should do to cause the Lamanites to come out against them to battle; or that they might by some means flatter them out of their strongholds, that they might gain advantage over them and take again the city of Mulek.

Alma 52:21
And it came to pass that Moroni, having no hopes of meeting them upon fair grounds, therefore, he resolved upon a plan that he might decoy the Lamanites out of their strongholds.

Alma 53:5
And this city became an exceeding stronghold ever after; and in this city they did guard the prisoners of the Lamanites; yea, even within a wall which they had caused them to build with their own hands. Now Moroni was compelled to cause the Lamanites to labor, because it was easy to guard them while at their labor; and he desired all his forces when he should make an attack upon the Lamanites.

Alma 53:6
And it came to pass that Moroni had thus gained a victory over one of the greatest of the armies of the Lamanites, and had obtained possession of the city of Mulek, which was one of the strongest holds of the Lamanites in the land of Nephi; and thus he had also built a stronghold to retain his prisoners.

Alma 55:33
And now it came to pass that it was expedient for Moroni to make preparations to attack the city Morianton; for behold, the Lamanites had, by their labors, fortified the city Morianton until it had become an exceeding stronghold.

Alma 56:21
Now we were desirous that the Lamanites should come upon us; for we were not desirous to make an attack upon them in their strongholds.

Alma 56:34
And now, in the city Antiparah were stationed the strongest army of the Lamanites; yea, the most numerous.

Alma 58:1
And behold, now it came to pass that our next object was to obtain the city of Manti; but behold, there was no way that we could lead them out of the city by our small bands. For behold, they remembered that which we had hitherto done; therefore we could not decoy them away from their strongholds.

Alma 58:2
And they were so much more numerous than was our army that we durst not go forth and attack them in their strongholds.

Alma 58:6
And the Lamanites were sallying forth against us from time to time, resolving by stratagem to destroy us; nevertheless we could not come to battle with them, because of their retreats and their strongholds.

Alma 58:23
And it came to pass that Gid and Teomner by this means had obtained possession of their strongholds. And it came to pass that we took our course, after having traveled much in the wilderness towards the land of Zarahemla.

Alma 62:6
And thus, when Moroni had gathered together whatsoever men he could in all his march, he came to the land of Gideon; and uniting his forces with those of Pahoran they became exceedingly strong, even stronger than the men of Pachus, who was the king of those dissenters who had driven the freemen out of the land of Zarahemla and had taken possession of the land.