Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'suppose' occurs 78 times in the standard works.

30 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'suppose' in the standard works and contain 38.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 17:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 29:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 30:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 33:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 40:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 1 0 1
NT 9 8 17
BM 64 40 104
1 Ne. 6 3 9
2 Ne. 7 1 8
Jacob 3 1 4
W of M 0 1 1
Mosiah 0 1 1
Alma 36 25 61
Hel. 3 2 5
3 Ne. 5 2 7
Morm. 2 0 2
Ether 1 0 1
Moro. 1 4 5
DC 3 2 5
PGP 1 2 3
TOTAL 78 52 130

3 Ne. 3:2
Lachoneus, most noble and chief governor of the land, behold, I write this epistle unto you, and do give unto you exceedingly great praise because of your firmness, and also the firmness of your people, in maintaining that which ye suppose to be your right and liberty; yea, ye do stand well, as if ye were supported by the hand of a god, in the defence of your liberty, and your property, and your country, or that which ye do call so.

3 Ne. 3:3
And it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus, that ye should be so foolish and vain as to suppose that ye can stand against so many brave men who are at my command, who do now at this time stand in their arms, and do await with great anxiety for the word-- Go down upon the Nephites and destroy them.

3 Ne. 4:9
And it came to pass that when the armies of Giddianhi saw this they began to shout with a loud voice, because of their joy, for they had supposed that the Nephites had fallen with fear because of the terror of their armies.

3 Ne. 4:16
And in the twenty and first year they did not come up to battle, but they came up on all sides to lay siege round about the people of Nephi; for they did suppose that if they should cut off the people of Nephi from their lands, and should hem them in on every side, and if they should cut them off from all their outward privileges, that they could cause them to yield themselves up according to their wishes.

3 Ne. 15:22
And they understood me not, for they supposed it had been the Gentiles; for they understood not that the Gentiles should be converted through their preaching.

3 Ne. 28:35
And it would be better for them if they had not been born. For do ye suppose that ye can get rid of the justice of an offended God, who hath been trampled under feet of men, that thereby salvation might come?

3 Ne. 29:9
Therefore ye need not suppose that ye can turn the right hand of the Lord unto the left, that he may not execute judgment unto the fulfilling of the covenant which he hath made unto the house of Israel.