Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'understand' occurs 181 times in the standard works.

55 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'understand' in the standard works and contain 30.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 22 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 77:2-14 (18 in 13 verses)

Matt. 13:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 28:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 12:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 25:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:40 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 13:32 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 29:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 8:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 6:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 10:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 10:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 33:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 17:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 50:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 113:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 63 145 208
Gen. 2 0 2
Ex. 0 3 3
Num. 1 0 1
Deut. 3 4 7
1 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 0 5 5
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 3 4
2 Chr. 0 3 3
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 4 2 6
Job 5 19 24
Ps. 9 15 24
Prov. 10 56 66
Eccl. 0 1 1
Isa. 11 9 20
Jer. 1 6 7
Ezek. 1 1 2
Dan. 11 12 23
Hosea 2 1 3
Obad. 0 2 2
Micah 1 0 1
NT 28 30 58
BM 46 22 68
DC 42 17 59
PGP 2 2 4
TOTAL 181 216 397

Deut. 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Deut. 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Deut. 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.