Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'understand' occurs 181 times in the standard works.

55 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'understand' in the standard works and contain 30.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 22 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 77:2-14 (18 in 13 verses)

Matt. 13:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 28:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 12:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 25:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:40 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 13:32 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 29:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 8:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 6:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 10:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 10:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 33:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 17:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 50:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 113:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 63 145 208
Gen. 2 0 2
Ex. 0 3 3
Num. 1 0 1
Deut. 3 4 7
1 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 0 5 5
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 3 4
2 Chr. 0 3 3
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 4 2 6
Job 5 19 24
Ps. 9 15 24
Prov. 10 56 66
Eccl. 0 1 1
Isa. 11 9 20
Jer. 1 6 7
Ezek. 1 1 2
Dan. 11 12 23
Hosea 2 1 3
Obad. 0 2 2
Micah 1 0 1
NT 28 30 58
BM 46 22 68
DC 42 17 59
PGP 2 2 4
TOTAL 181 216 397

Obad. 1:7
All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

Obad. 1:8
Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?