Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'snare' occurs 54 times in the standard works.

8 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'snare' in the standard works and contain 14.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 124:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 3:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 24:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 48:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 40 25 65
NT 6 0 6
BM 5 7 12
1 Ne. 0 1 1
2 Ne. 2 1 3
Mosiah 1 0 1
Alma 2 3 5
Hel. 0 1 1
Ether 0 1 1
DC 3 1 4
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 54 33 87

1 Ne. 22:14
And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against another, and they shall fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people of the Lord. And all that fight against Zion shall be destroyed, and that great whore, who hath perverted the right ways of the Lord, yea, that great and abominable church, shall tumble to the dust and great shall be the fall of it.

2 Ne. 18:15
And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Alma 10:17
Now they knew not that Amulek could know of their designs. But it came to pass as they began to question him, he perceived their thoughts, and he said unto them: O ye wicked and perverse generation, ye lawyers and hypocrites, for ye are laying the foundations of the devil; for ye are laying traps and snares to catch the holy ones of God.

Alma 28:13
And thus we see how great the inequality of man is because of sin and transgression, and the power of the devil, which comes by the cunning plans which he hath devised to ensnare the hearts of men.

Alma 55:31
But behold, the Nephites were not slow to remember the Lord their God in this their time of affliction. They could not be taken in their snares; yea, they would not partake of their wine, save they had first given to some of the Lamanite prisoners.

Hel. 3:29
Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked--

Ether 2:2
And they did also lay snares and catch fowls of the air; and they did also prepare a vessel, in which they did carry with them the fish of the waters.