Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'very' occurs 396 times in the standard works.

67 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'very' in the standard works and contain 16.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 24:2-3 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 128:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 97:18 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 123:16 (3 in 1 verse)

Luke 18:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 28:43 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 22:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 19:32 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 10:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 10:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 37:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 2:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 95:10 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 100:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:44 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 50:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 9:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 28:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 11:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 123:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 2:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 210 960 1170
Gen. 18 91 109
Ex. 10 69 79
Lev. 0 35 35
Num. 7 86 93
Deut. 9 32 41
Josh. 13 11 24
Judg. 5 25 30
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 18 28 46
2 Sam. 12 20 32
1 Kgs. 10 27 37
2 Kgs. 3 28 31
1 Chr. 5 21 26
2 Chr. 12 39 51
Ezra 2 7 9
Neh. 5 20 25
Esth. 1 26 27
Job 4 22 26
Ps. 17 35 52
Prov. 2 21 23
Eccl. 0 14 14
Song. 0 4 4
Isa. 16 60 76
Jer. 14 94 108
Lam. 1 3 4
Ezek. 9 89 98
Dan. 5 6 11
Hosea 0 2 2
Joel 2 2 4
Amos 1 6 7
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 1 3 4
Micah 0 3 3
Hab. 2 1 3
Zeph. 0 4 4
Hag. 0 3 3
Zech. 5 19 24
Mal. 0 3 3
NT 47 280 327
BM 73 233 306
DC 46 139 185
PGP 20 53 73
TOTAL 396 1665 2061

Deut. 9:20
And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

Deut. 9:21
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

Deut. 20:15
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Deut. 27:8
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

Deut. 28:43
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

Deut. 28:54
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

Deut. 30:14
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

Deut. 32:20
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.