Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'possession' occurs 175 times in the standard works.

57 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'possession' in the standard works and contain 32.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 21 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 45:5-8 (5 in 4 verses)

Lev. 25:32-34 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 46:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 48:20-22 (4 in 3 verses)

Josh. 22:19 (3 in 1 verse)

Hel. 1:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 26:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 24:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 44:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 51:23 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:1 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 25:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)


Lev. 25:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

 25:27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

 25:28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.




Lev. 25:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 27:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 12:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 21:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 100 9 109
Gen. 12 2 14
Lev. 20 0 20
Num. 12 1 13
Deut. 9 0 9
Josh. 12 0 12
1 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 3 0 3
1 Chr. 1 2 3
2 Chr. 3 1 4
Neh. 1 0 1
Ps. 4 0 4
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 0 1 1
Isa. 1 0 1
Ezek. 21 0 21
Obad. 0 1 1
NT 4 4 8
BM 65 21 86
DC 1 1 2
PGP 5 0 5
TOTAL 175 35 210

Lev. 14:34
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

Lev. 25:10
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Lev. 25:13
In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Lev. 25:24
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Lev. 25:25
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

Lev. 25:27
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

Lev. 25:28
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

Lev. 25:32
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

Lev. 25:33
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

Lev. 25:34
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Lev. 25:41
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

Lev. 25:45
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

Lev. 25:46
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

Lev. 27:16
And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

Lev. 27:21
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

Lev. 27:22
And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

Lev. 27:24
In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

Lev. 27:28
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.