Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'strange' occurs 93 times in the standard works.

20 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'strange' in the standard works and contain 21.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 81:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 28:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:36 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:95 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 10:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

 3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

 3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.




1 Ne. 8:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 65 194 259
Gen. 3 9 12
Ex. 4 15 19
Lev. 1 27 28
Num. 2 17 19
Deut. 2 28 30
Josh. 2 3 5
Judg. 2 1 3
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Sam. 0 4 4
1 Kgs. 2 3 5
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 0 3 3
2 Chr. 2 5 7
Ezra 7 0 7
Neh. 1 2 3
Job 3 4 7
Ps. 7 12 19
Prov. 11 12 23
Eccl. 0 1 1
Isa. 4 13 17
Jer. 3 10 13
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 2 16 18
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 2 2 4
Joel 0 1 1
Obad. 0 2 2
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 0 1 1
Mal. 1 1 2
NT 11 23 34
BM 7 7 14
DC 3 3 6
PGP 7 1 8
TOTAL 93 228 321

Ezek. 3:5
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Ezek. 3:6
Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

Ezek. 7:21
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

Ezek. 11:9
And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

Ezek. 14:5
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

Ezek. 14:7
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:

Ezek. 16:32
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Ezek. 22:7
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Ezek. 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Ezek. 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Ezek. 28:10
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 30:12
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.

Ezek. 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezek. 44:7
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Ezek. 44:9
Thus saith the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

Ezek. 47:22
And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

Ezek. 47:23
And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord God.