Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'shoot' occurs 23 times in the standard works.

3 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'shoot' in the standard works and contain 13% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 64:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

 64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 20 5 25
NT 1 1 2
BM 1 0 1
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 23 6 29

Ex. 36:33
And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

1 Sam. 20:20
And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

1 Sam. 20:36
And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

2 Sam. 11:20
And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

2 Sam. 11:24
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

2 Kgs. 13:17
And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.

2 Kgs. 19:32
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

1 Chr. 5:18
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

1 Chr. 12:2
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

2 Chr. 26:15
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

Job 8:16
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Ps. 11:2
For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Ps. 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Ps. 58:7
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

Ps. 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Ps. 64:4
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

Ps. 64:7
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

Ps. 144:6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Isa. 27:8
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Isa. 37:33
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

Jer. 50:14
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.

Ezek. 31:14
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Ezek. 36:8
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Amos 7:1
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Mark 4:32
But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

Luke 21:30
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

Jacob 5:4
And it came to pass that the master of the vineyard went forth, and he saw that his olive tree began to decay; and he said: I will prune it, and dig about it, and nourish it, that perhaps it may shoot forth young and tender branches, and it perish not.

D&C 45:37
Ye look and behold the fig trees, and ye see them with your eyes, and ye say when they begin to shoot forth, and their leaves are yet tender, that summer is now nigh at hand;