Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'silence' occurs 41 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'silence' in the standard works and contain 14.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 15:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 10:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 25 0 25
Judg. 1 0 1
Job 3 0 3
Ps. 9 0 9
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 5 0 5
Jer. 1 0 1
Lam. 2 0 2
Amos 2 0 2
Hab. 1 0 1
NT 10 0 10
BM 4 1 5
DC 2 0 2
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 41 1 42

Judg. 3:19
But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

Job 4:16
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

Job 29:21
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Job 31:34
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Ps. 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Ps. 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Ps. 35:22
This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Ps. 39:2
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Ps. 50:3
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Ps. 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Ps. 83:1
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

Ps. 94:17
Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

Ps. 115:17
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.

Eccl. 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Isa. 15:1
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Isa. 41:1
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

Isa. 62:6
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,

Isa. 65:6
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Jer. 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

Lam. 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lam. 3:28
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Hab. 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.