Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'nigh' occurs 133 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'nigh' in the standard works and contain 14.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 21:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

James 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 18:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 11:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 35:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 55 271 326
Gen. 1 34 35
Ex. 6 18 24
Lev. 6 5 11
Num. 9 9 18
Deut. 8 12 20
Josh. 1 7 8
Judg. 0 16 16
Ruth 0 4 4
1 Sam. 1 14 15
2 Sam. 4 9 13
1 Kgs. 2 6 8
2 Kgs. 0 5 5
1 Chr. 2 2 4
2 Chr. 0 5 5
Neh. 0 9 9
Esth. 1 2 3
Job 0 20 20
Ps. 10 31 41
Prov. 1 3 4
Eccl. 1 2 3
Song. 0 4 4
Isa. 1 21 22
Jer. 0 13 13
Lam. 0 3 3
Dan. 0 6 6
Hosea 0 2 2
Joel 1 1 2
Amos 0 1 1
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 0 3 3
Micah 0 1 1
Zech. 0 2 2
NT 45 71 116
BM 10 93 103
DC 20 21 41
PGP 3 22 25
TOTAL 133 478 611

Job 2:13
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Job 3:6
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Job 3:7
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

Job 4:13
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Job 7:3
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Job 7:4
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Job 17:12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Job 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Job 29:19
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Job 34:20
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Job 34:25
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Job 35:10
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.