Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'shew' occurs 228 times in the standard works.

41 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'shew' in the standard works and contain 18% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 16 minutes to read the entire list.

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Dan. 2:6-11 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Sam. 22:26-27 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 18:25-26 (4 in 2 verses)

Ex. 33:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 41:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 17:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)


1 Sam. 20:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

 20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

 20:13 The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

 20:14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not:




John 16:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 1:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 40:4 (2 in 1 verse)

James 2:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 18:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 43:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

John 14:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 162 137 299
Gen. 5 8 13
Ex. 11 8 19
Lev. 0 3 3
Num. 1 5 6
Deut. 10 7 17
Josh. 2 1 3
Judg. 4 7 11
Ruth 0 3 3
1 Sam. 13 8 21
2 Sam. 11 4 15
1 Kgs. 6 5 11
2 Kgs. 2 8 10
1 Chr. 2 4 6
2 Chr. 1 7 8
Ezra 1 1 2
Neh. 2 2 4
Esth. 3 4 7
Job 8 4 12
Ps. 26 17 43
Prov. 1 3 4
Eccl. 0 1 1
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 14 10 24
Jer. 8 4 12
Ezek. 7 3 10
Dan. 18 2 20
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 0 4 4
Micah 1 1 2
Nahum 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
Zech. 2 2 4
NT 66 58 124
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 228 195 423

1 Sam. 3:15
And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.

1 Sam. 8:9
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

1 Sam. 9:6
And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.

1 Sam. 9:27
And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.

1 Sam. 10:8
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.

1 Sam. 11:9
And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

1 Sam. 14:12
And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

1 Sam. 15:6
And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

1 Sam. 16:3
And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

1 Sam. 19:7
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.

1 Sam. 20:2
And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

1 Sam. 20:12
And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

1 Sam. 20:13
The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

1 Sam. 20:14
And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not:

1 Sam. 21:6
So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

1 Sam. 22:8
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

1 Sam. 22:17
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord.

1 Sam. 22:21
And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests.

1 Sam. 24:18
And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.

1 Sam. 25:8
Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.