Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ward' occurs 33 times in the standard works.

11 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ward' in the standard works and contain 33.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Neh. 12:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 25:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 26:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 12:45 (2 in 1 verse)


Gen. 40:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

 40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

 40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 24 750 774
Gen. 5 41 46
Ex. 1 37 38
Lev. 1 27 28
Num. 1 82 83
Deut. 0 24 24
Josh. 0 60 60
Judg. 0 18 18
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 1 23 24
2 Sam. 1 11 12
1 Kgs. 0 23 23
2 Kgs. 0 13 13
1 Chr. 5 25 30
2 Chr. 0 26 26
Ezra 0 5 5
Neh. 5 6 11
Esth. 0 3 3
Job 0 14 14
Ps. 1 39 40
Prov. 0 34 34
Eccl. 0 7 7
Song. 0 2 2
Isa. 1 31 32
Jer. 1 23 24
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 1 130 131
Dan. 0 18 18
Hosea 0 6 6
Joel 0 3 3
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 0 1 1
Micah 0 2 2
Hag. 0 2 2
Zech. 0 10 10
NT 8 156 164
BM 0 245 245
DC 1 134 135
PGP 0 13 13
TOTAL 33 1298 1331

Gen. 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Gen. 2:14
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Gen. 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Gen. 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Gen. 10:18
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

Gen. 12:9
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Gen. 13:12
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Gen. 13:14
And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Gen. 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Gen. 15:2
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

Gen. 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Gen. 15:14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Gen. 18:2
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

Gen. 18:16
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

Gen. 18:22
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

Gen. 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Gen. 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Gen. 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Gen. 25:6
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

Gen. 25:18
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

Gen. 26:13
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

Gen. 28:10
And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

Gen. 30:21
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

Gen. 30:40
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

Gen. 31:2
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Gen. 31:5
And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

Gen. 31:21
So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

Gen. 32:20
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

Gen. 38:30
And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

Gen. 40:3
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Gen. 40:4
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

Gen. 40:7
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

Gen. 41:10
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:

Gen. 42:17
And he put them all together into ward three days.

Gen. 43:19
And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,

Gen. 44:1
And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

Gen. 44:4
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Gen. 48:13
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

Gen. 49:17
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.