Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sea' occurs 526 times in the standard works.

212 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sea' in the standard works and contain 40.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 81 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 14:21-15:4 (15 in 15 verses)

Jonah 1:9-15 (8 in 7 verses)

Ex. 15:19-22 (5 in 4 verses)

Hel. 3:8 (4 in 1 verse)

Ether 2:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 47:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

John 6:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Josh. 12:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Mark 4:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 22:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Josh. 24:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Jonah 1:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Rev. 8:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 34:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 4:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 9:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 106:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 23:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 26:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)


Ezek. 47:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

 47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

 47:9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

 47:10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.




Matt. 14:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 6:47-49 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 7:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 52:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 6:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 14:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 30:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:44 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 72:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 51:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 2:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 8:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Micah 7:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 10:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 5:13 (2 in 1 verse)

John 6:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 13:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 16:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 8:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 50:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 11:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 2:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 33:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 34:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 9:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 8:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 24:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 2:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 8:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 4:41-5:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 10:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 10:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 302 247 549
Gen. 8 8 16
Ex. 32 22 54
Lev. 0 13 13
Num. 15 17 32
Deut. 12 12 24
Josh. 33 3 36
Judg. 3 4 7
1 Sam. 1 7 8
2 Sam. 2 2 4
1 Kgs. 15 6 21
2 Kgs. 4 6 10
1 Chr. 2 5 7
2 Chr. 10 8 18
Ezra 1 5 6
Neh. 3 5 8
Esth. 1 5 6
Job 12 25 37
Ps. 32 22 54
Prov. 3 9 12
Eccl. 2 5 7
Song. 0 3 3
Isa. 28 6 34
Jer. 17 12 29
Lam. 2 1 3
Ezek. 21 20 41
Dan. 2 7 9
Hosea 2 4 6
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 5 2 7
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 11 1 12
Micah 3 0 3
Nahum 3 0 3
Hab. 4 0 4
Zeph. 3 1 4
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 7 0 7
NT 98 128 226
BM 95 189 284
DC 19 101 120
PGP 12 10 22
TOTAL 526 675 1201

Ezek. 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

Ezek. 25:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

Ezek. 26:3
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

Ezek. 26:5
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

Ezek. 26:16
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.

Ezek. 26:17
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

Ezek. 26:18
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

Ezek. 27:3
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

Ezek. 27:4
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Ezek. 27:9
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

Ezek. 27:25
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

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

Ezek. 27:27
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

Ezek. 27:29
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

Ezek. 27:32
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

Ezek. 27:33
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

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. 28:2
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Ezek. 28:8
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

Ezek. 28:12
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezek. 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

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. 34:6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

Ezek. 34:8
As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

Ezek. 34:11
For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

Ezek. 34:21
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

Ezek. 34:26
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

Ezek. 38:20
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Ezek. 39:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.

Ezek. 39:14
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

Ezek. 47:8
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

Ezek. 47:10
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Ezek. 47:15
And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

Ezek. 47:17
And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

Ezek. 47:18
And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

Ezek. 47:19
And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.

Ezek. 47:20
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.

Ezek. 48:28
And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.