Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'eight' occurs 106 times in the standard works.

18 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'eight' in the standard works and contain 17% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moses 6:18-21 (5 in 4 verses)

JS-H 1:59-60 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 5:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 74 189 263
NT 6 19 25
Matt. 0 1 1
Luke 2 4 6
John 2 1 3
Acts 1 1 2
Rom. 0 1 1
2 Cor. 0 2 2
Eph. 0 2 2
Philip. 0 1 1
Heb. 0 1 1
1 Pet. 1 0 1
2 Pet. 0 1 1
Rev. 0 4 4
BM 6 50 56
DC 8 10 18
PGP 12 7 19
TOTAL 106 275 381

Matt. 23:23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Luke 1:59
And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Luke 2:21
And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Luke 9:28
And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.

Luke 13:4
Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

Luke 13:11
And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

Luke 13:16
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

John 5:5
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

John 19:39
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

John 20:26
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

Acts 9:33
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.

Rom. 8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Cor. 4:17
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

2 Cor. 10:10
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

Eph. 3:18
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

Eph. 4:14
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Philip. 3:5
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

Heb. 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

1 Pet. 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

2 Pet. 2:5
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Rev. 16:21
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Rev. 17:11
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Rev. 21:16
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

Rev. 21:20
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.