Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'husband' occurs 141 times in the standard works.

65 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'husband' in the standard works and contain 46.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 26 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 30:6-14 (10 in 9 verses)

1 Cor. 7:10-16 (7 in 7 verses)

Rom. 7:2-3 (6 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:2-4 (5 in 3 verses)

Deut. 25:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

John 4:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 5:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 24:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 74:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ruth 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 11:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 7:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 4:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 13:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 3:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 5:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)


Alma 19:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

 19:4 And she said unto him: The servants of my husband have made it known unto me that thou art a prophet of a holy God, and that thou hast power to do many mighty works in his name;

 19:5 Therefore, if this is the case, I would that ye should go in and see my husband, for he has been laid upon his bed for the space of two days and two nights; and some say that he is not dead, but others say that he is dead and that he stinketh, and that he ought to be placed in the sepulchre; but as for myself, to me he doth not stink.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 87 16 103
NT 39 33 72
BM 6 10 16
1 Ne. 1 0 1
Jacob 0 4 4
Mosiah 1 1 2
Alma 3 1 4
3 Ne. 1 0 1
Morm. 0 2 2
Moro. 0 2 2
DC 7 4 11
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 141 63 204

Alma 19:4
And she said unto him: The servants of my husband have made it known unto me that thou art a prophet of a holy God, and that thou hast power to do many mighty works in his name;

Alma 19:5
Therefore, if this is the case, I would that ye should go in and see my husband, for he has been laid upon his bed for the space of two days and two nights; and some say that he is not dead, but others say that he is dead and that he stinketh, and that he ought to be placed in the sepulchre; but as for myself, to me he doth not stink.

Alma 19:11
And it came to pass that she watched over the bed of her husband, from that time even until that time on the morrow which Ammon had appointed that he should rise.

Alma 28:5
Yea, the cry of widows mourning for their husbands, and also of fathers mourning for their sons, and the daughter for the brother, yea, the brother for the father; and thus the cry of mourning was heard among all of them, mourning for their kindred who had been slain.