Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ears' occurs 185 times in the standard works.

49 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ears' in the standard works and contain 26.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 19 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 41:22-27 (6 in 6 verses)

Gen. 41:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 36:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 36:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 13:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 128:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 2:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 17:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 28:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 36:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 28:27 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 16:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 32:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 9:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 8:18-9:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 119 531 650
Gen. 14 113 127
Ex. 5 16 21
Lev. 3 26 29
Num. 2 40 42
Deut. 6 13 19
Josh. 1 7 8
Judg. 4 23 27
Ruth 1 1 2
1 Sam. 5 8 13
2 Sam. 4 16 20
1 Kgs. 0 26 26
2 Kgs. 5 49 54
1 Chr. 1 11 12
2 Chr. 3 57 60
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 1 6 7
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 6 9 15
Ps. 9 24 33
Prov. 4 4 8
Eccl. 0 7 7
Isa. 16 21 37
Jer. 18 16 34
Lam. 0 3 3
Ezek. 9 10 19
Dan. 0 7 7
Joel 0 3 3
Amos 0 4 4
Micah 1 1 2
Hab. 0 2 2
Zech. 1 3 4
Mal. 0 2 2
NT 32 72 104
BM 10 159 169
DC 23 51 74
PGP 1 48 49
TOTAL 185 861 1046

Neh. 4:13
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Neh. 4:16
And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Neh. 4:21
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

Neh. 5:14
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

Neh. 8:3
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

Neh. 9:21
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

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.