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)

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

Jer. 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jer. 2:16
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

Jer. 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

Jer. 4:26
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

Jer. 5:5
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Jer. 10:20
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

Jer. 11:10
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jer. 11:16
The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Jer. 14:17
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Jer. 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Jer. 23:9
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.

Jer. 28:2
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Jer. 28:12
Then the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

Jer. 28:13
Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

Jer. 33:21
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

Jer. 37:11
And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

Jer. 39:2
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

Jer. 48:17
All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!

Jer. 48:20
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

Jer. 48:25
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.

Jer. 48:38
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord.

Jer. 48:39
They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

Jer. 50:2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Jer. 50:17
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Jer. 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Jer. 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

Jer. 51:56
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.

Jer. 51:58
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

Jer. 52:7
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.