Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'most' occurs 230 times in the standard works.

43 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'most' in the standard works and contain 18.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 18 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 18:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 14:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Dan. 7:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 42:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 13:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 15:36 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:32 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 107:78 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 26:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 21:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 50:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 33:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

 33:28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

 33:29 Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.




Dan. 4:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 11:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 114 55 169
Gen. 4 5 9
Ex. 7 5 12
Lev. 13 0 13
Num. 6 7 13
Deut. 1 4 5
Josh. 0 4 4
1 Sam. 0 1 1
2 Sam. 2 1 3
1 Kgs. 3 3 6
2 Kgs. 0 2 2
1 Chr. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 5 0 5
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 1 1 2
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 21 6 27
Prov. 1 3 4
Song. 3 0 3
Isa. 2 5 7
Jer. 3 5 8
Lam. 3 0 3
Ezek. 13 2 15
Dan. 17 0 17
Hosea 3 0 3
Joel 0 1 1
Micah 1 0 1
NT 21 18 39
BM 53 25 78
DC 36 5 41
PGP 6 2 8
TOTAL 230 105 335

Ezek. 2:7
And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

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. 33:28
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

Ezek. 33:29
Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

Ezek. 35:3
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

Ezek. 35:7
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

Ezek. 41:4
So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

Ezek. 42:5
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Ezek. 42:6
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Ezek. 42:13
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

Ezek. 43:12
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Ezek. 44:13
And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

Ezek. 45:3
And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

Ezek. 48:12
And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.