Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'dan' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'dan' in the standard works and contain 36.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 18:25-30 (6 in 6 verses)

Josh. 19:47-48 (5 in 2 verses)

Num. 2:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 26:42 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 33:22 (2 in 1 verse)


Gen. 49:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.




Num. 1:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 18:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 74 440 514
Gen. 6 26 32
Ex. 4 5 9
Lev. 1 1 2
Num. 12 27 39
Deut. 4 28 32
Josh. 8 71 79
Judg. 15 19 34
1 Sam. 1 8 9
2 Sam. 5 19 24
1 Kgs. 4 10 14
2 Kgs. 1 15 16
1 Chr. 3 31 34
2 Chr. 3 22 25
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 0 3 3
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 0 7 7
Ps. 0 14 14
Eccl. 0 4 4
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 0 15 15
Jer. 2 21 23
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 4 10 14
Dan. 0 76 76
Amos 1 0 1
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 0 2 2
NT 0 67 67
BM 0 82 82
DC 0 32 32
PGP 0 8 8
TOTAL 74 629 703

Gen. 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Gen. 1:21
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Gen. 8:17
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Gen. 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Gen. 10:4
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Gen. 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

Gen. 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Gen. 13:11
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Gen. 14:14
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

Gen. 25:2
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

Gen. 25:3
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

Gen. 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Gen. 28:2
Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

Gen. 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Gen. 28:6
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Gen. 28:7
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;

Gen. 30:6
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Gen. 31:18
And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Gen. 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

Gen. 33:18
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

Gen. 35:9
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.

Gen. 35:25
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

Gen. 35:26
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

Gen. 36:26
And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

Gen. 46:15
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

Gen. 46:23
And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

Gen. 48:7
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.

Gen. 49:16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Gen. 49:17
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Gen. 50:10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Gen. 50:11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.