Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'gave' occurs 608 times in the standard works.

177 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'gave' in the standard works and contain 29.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 73 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 45:21-22 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 5:10-12 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 35:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

Neh. 7:70-72 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 7:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 10:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Chr. 6:64-67 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 29:35 (3 in 1 verse)

Josh. 24:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 26:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

Acts 12:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Josh. 21:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 6:55-57 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 25:35-37 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 22:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Acts 13:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 24:53 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 43:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 18:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 22:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 9:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 21:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 69:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 41:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 15:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 25:42 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 6:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 8:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 25:20 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 45:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 25:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 29:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 3:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 3:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 12:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 13:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 14:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 21:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 21:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 30:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 18:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 28:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 29:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 42:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 39:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 5:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 14:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 15:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

John 6:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 28:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 7:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 95:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 98:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:64-65 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 331 26 357
Gen. 48 1 49
Ex. 9 0 9
Num. 13 0 13
Deut. 10 0 10
Josh. 38 0 38
Judg. 15 0 15
Ruth 5 0 5
1 Sam. 15 0 15
2 Sam. 4 0 4
1 Kgs. 18 3 21
2 Kgs. 13 0 13
1 Chr. 18 0 18
2 Chr. 27 4 31
Ezra 5 0 5
Neh. 12 12 24
Esth. 8 0 8
Job 8 1 9
Ps. 19 5 24
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 4 0 4
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 5 0 5
Jer. 15 0 15
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 6 0 6
Dan. 9 0 9
Hosea 2 0 2
Amos 1 0 1
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 134 19 153
BM 92 0 92
DC 34 2 36
PGP 17 1 18
TOTAL 608 48 656

Neh. 2:1
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

Neh. 2:9
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

Neh. 7:2
That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

Neh. 7:70
And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.

Neh. 7:71
And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.

Neh. 7:72
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.

Neh. 8:8
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Neh. 9:7
Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

Neh. 9:13
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

Neh. 9:15
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

Neh. 9:20
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Neh. 9:22
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

Neh. 9:24
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

Neh. 9:27
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

Neh. 9:30
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Neh. 9:35
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Neh. 9:36
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

Neh. 12:31
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:

Neh. 12:38
And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;

Neh. 12:40
So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:

Neh. 12:47
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.