Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'broken' occurs 260 times in the standard works.

41 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'broken' in the standard works and contain 15.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 14 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 12:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 8:9 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 18:9 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 20:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 51:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 19:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 21:1 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 6:14 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 8:18 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 28:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 48:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 30:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

 30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

 30:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.




Rom. 11:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 56:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 161 3 164
Gen. 3 0 3
Lev. 10 2 12
Num. 1 0 1
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 7 0 7
Neh. 2 0 2
Job 8 0 8
Ps. 22 0 22
Prov. 7 0 7
Eccl. 4 0 4
Isa. 22 1 23
Jer. 30 0 30
Lam. 3 0 3
Ezek. 17 0 17
Dan. 7 0 7
Hosea 2 0 2
Joel 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 1 0 1
Zech. 2 0 2
NT 25 1 26
BM 49 0 49
DC 24 0 24
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 260 4 264

Ezek. 6:4
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

Ezek. 6:6
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Ezek. 6:9
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezek. 17:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

Ezek. 19:12
But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

Ezek. 26:2
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:

Ezek. 27:26
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

Ezek. 27:34
In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

Ezek. 30:4
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

Ezek. 30:21
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

Ezek. 30:22
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Ezek. 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezek. 32:28
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

Ezek. 34:4
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Ezek. 34:16
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

Ezek. 34:27
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

Ezek. 44:7
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.