Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'hold' occurs 276 times in the standard works.

35 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'hold' in the standard works and contain 12.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moro. 7:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 9:49 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 41:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 8:23 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 18:24 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 22:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 2:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 1:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 6:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 50:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 64:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:123-124 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 139 1264 1403
Gen. 3 127 130
Ex. 8 43 51
Lev. 0 30 30
Num. 2 32 34
Deut. 4 26 30
Josh. 0 22 22
Judg. 6 45 51
Ruth 1 5 6
1 Sam. 4 82 86
2 Sam. 12 52 64
1 Kgs. 6 58 64
2 Kgs. 5 62 67
1 Chr. 4 8 12
2 Chr. 1 37 38
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 1 4 5
Esth. 1 4 5
Job 17 61 78
Ps. 13 53 66
Prov. 6 20 26
Eccl. 2 10 12
Song. 2 9 11
Isa. 16 113 129
Jer. 8 140 148
Lam. 0 10 10
Ezek. 4 117 121
Dan. 0 22 22
Hosea 0 2 2
Joel 0 4 4
Amos 1 15 16
Obad. 0 1 1
Micah 2 5 7
Nahum 1 6 7
Hab. 1 7 8
Zeph. 1 3 4
Zech. 7 22 29
Mal. 0 6 6
NT 46 270 316
BM 43 1696 1739
DC 46 506 552
PGP 2 75 77
TOTAL 276 3811 4087

Ezek. 29:7
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

Ezek. 30:21
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

Ezek. 41:6
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.