Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'play' occurs 21 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'play' in the standard works and contain 9.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 16:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

 16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 16 32 48
Gen. 0 1 1
Ex. 1 0 1
Lev. 0 1 1
Deut. 1 0 1
Judg. 0 1 1
1 Sam. 3 7 10
2 Sam. 3 1 4
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 0 2 2
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 2 4 6
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 0 4 4
Ezek. 1 8 9
Hosea 2 1 3
Zech. 0 1 1
NT 1 0 1
BM 4 0 4
DC 0 1 1
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 21 34 55

1 Sam. 16:16
Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

1 Sam. 16:17
And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

1 Sam. 16:18
Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

1 Sam. 16:23
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

1 Sam. 18:7
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

1 Sam. 18:10
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.

1 Sam. 19:9
And the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.

1 Sam. 21:15
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

1 Sam. 26:21
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.