Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'found' occurs 530 times in the standard works.

116 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'found' in the standard works and contain 21.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 50 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 7:27-29 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 18:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

Song. 3:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 85:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 44:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Acts 5:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 31:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 44:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 13:22 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 21:20 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 25:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 7:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 2:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 26:60 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 15:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 27:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:64 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 22:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 33:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 33:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 35:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 6:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 15:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 20:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 22:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 4:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 28:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 1:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 6:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 2:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 15:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 24:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 24:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 18:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 3:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 22:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 35:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 68:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 85:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:60-61 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 286 124 410
Gen. 38 2 40
Ex. 16 1 17
Lev. 2 0 2
Num. 5 0 5
Deut. 15 1 16
Josh. 2 1 3
Judg. 5 1 6
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 22 0 22
2 Sam. 4 2 6
1 Kgs. 14 5 19
2 Kgs. 19 1 20
1 Chr. 9 0 9
2 Chr. 18 3 21
Ezra 5 7 12
Neh. 7 1 8
Esth. 5 0 5
Job 9 5 14
Ps. 10 22 32
Prov. 8 3 11
Eccl. 5 0 5
Song. 6 0 6
Isa. 13 22 35
Jer. 20 27 47
Lam. 1 1 2
Ezek. 3 7 10
Dan. 14 0 14
Hosea 5 1 6
Amos 0 1 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 1 4 5
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 0 1
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 4 5
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 117 34 151
BM 71 86 157
DC 38 47 85
PGP 18 6 24
TOTAL 530 297 827

Gen. 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Gen. 11:9
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Ex. 9:18
Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

Deut. 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Josh. 6:26
And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

Judg. 17:4
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

2 Sam. 22:8
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

2 Sam. 22:16
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

1 Kgs. 5:17
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

1 Kgs. 6:37
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:

1 Kgs. 7:9
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

1 Kgs. 7:10
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

1 Kgs. 16:34
In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

2 Kgs. 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

2 Chr. 8:16
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.

2 Chr. 23:5
And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

2 Chr. 31:7
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

Ezra 3:6
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.

Ezra 3:10
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Ezra 3:11
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

Ezra 3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

Ezra 4:12
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

Ezra 5:16
Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.

Ezra 6:3
In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

Neh. 9:8
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:

Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Job 6:20
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:6
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Ps. 11:3
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Ps. 18:7
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Ps. 18:15
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

Ps. 22:5
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Ps. 24:2
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Ps. 35:4
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Ps. 40:14
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Ps. 69:6
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

Ps. 70:2
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Ps. 71:13
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

Ps. 71:24
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

Ps. 82:5
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Ps. 83:17
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

Ps. 87:1
His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Ps. 89:11
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

Ps. 97:7
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Ps. 102:25
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Ps. 104:5
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

Ps. 104:8
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

Ps. 119:152
Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

Ps. 129:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

Ps. 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Prov. 3:19
The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Prov. 8:29
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Prov. 10:25
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Isa. 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Isa. 14:32
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Isa. 16:7
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

Isa. 19:9
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

Isa. 23:13
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

Isa. 24:18
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

Isa. 24:23
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isa. 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Isa. 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Isa. 40:21
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isa. 41:11
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Isa. 44:28
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

Isa. 45:16
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Isa. 45:17
But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Isa. 48:13
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Isa. 50:7
For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Isa. 51:13
And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isa. 51:16
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

Isa. 54:4
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

Isa. 54:11
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Isa. 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Jer. 1:17
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

Jer. 6:29
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Jer. 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

Jer. 10:9
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

Jer. 10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jer. 14:3
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

Jer. 15:9
She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord.

Jer. 17:18
Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jer. 22:22
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Jer. 31:19
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Jer. 31:37
Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.

Jer. 46:24
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

Jer. 48:1
Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

Jer. 48:20
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

Jer. 49:23
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

Jer. 50:2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Jer. 50:12
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jer. 50:15
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

Jer. 51:17
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jer. 51:26
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord.

Jer. 51:47
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

Jer. 51:51
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house.

Lam. 4:11
The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Ezek. 13:14
So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 16:52
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Ezek. 16:54
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

Ezek. 16:63
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 30:4
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

Ezek. 36:32
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

Ezek. 41:8
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

Hosea 5:2
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

Amos 9:6
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

Micah 1:6
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

Micah 3:7
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

Micah 6:2
Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

Micah 7:16
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

Hab. 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

Hag. 2:18
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it.

Zech. 4:9
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.

Zech. 8:9
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

Zech. 10:5
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

Zech. 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.