Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'widows' occurs 36 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'widows' in the standard works and contain 11.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Tim. 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 5:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 12 0 12
NT 14 0 14
BM 7 0 7
2 Ne. 2 0 2
Mosiah 2 0 2
Alma 1 0 1
Morm. 1 0 1
Moro. 1 0 1
DC 3 0 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 36 0 36

2 Ne. 19:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Ne. 20:2
To turn away the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Mosiah 21:10
Now there were a great many widows in the land, and they did cry mightily from day to day, for a great fear of the Lamanites had come upon them.

Mosiah 21:17
Now there was a great number of women, more than there was of men; therefore king Limhi commanded that every man should impart to the support of the widows and their children, that they might not perish with hunger; and this they did because of the greatness of their number that had been slain.

Alma 28:5
Yea, the cry of widows mourning for their husbands, and also of fathers mourning for their sons, and the daughter for the brother, yea, the brother for the father; and thus the cry of mourning was heard among all of them, mourning for their kindred who had been slain.

Morm. 8:40
Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?

Moro. 9:16
And again, my son, there are many widows and their daughters who remain in Sherrizah; and that part of the provisions which the Lamanites did not carry away, behold, the army of Zenephi has carried away, and left them to wander whithersoever they can for food; and many old women do faint by the way and die.