Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'meat' occurs 306 times in the standard works.

91 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'meat' in the standard works and contain 29.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 41 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 2:1-15 (15 in 15 verses)

2 Kgs. 16:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

Lev. 6:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 28:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 46:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:37-39 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 13:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 45:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 46:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Rom. 14:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 29:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 8:64 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 47:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 22:27 (2 in 1 verse)

John 6:27 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 1:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 6:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 14:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 25:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 28:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 45:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 1:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 27:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 2:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 4:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 233 5 238
NT 57 7 64
BM 9 0 9
DC 2 1 3
PGP 5 0 5
TOTAL 306 13 319

Gen. 40:17
And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

2 Kgs. 12:21
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

1 Chr. 2:55
And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

2 Chr. 24:26
And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

Prov. 23:6
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

Acts 15:29
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

1 Cor. 6:13
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Tim. 4:3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Heb. 9:10
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Heb. 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

D&C 49:18
And whoso forbiddeth to abstain from meats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God;