Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'knew' occurs 284 times in the standard works.

50 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'knew' in the standard works and contain 17.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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JS-H 1:24-25 (6 in 2 verses)

Alma 19:6-7 (4 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:33-5:2 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 55:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 42:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

John 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 46:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 48:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 12:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 20:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 43:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 95 6 101
Gen. 17 0 17
Ex. 1 0 1
Num. 2 0 2
Deut. 6 1 7
Judg. 9 0 9
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 16 0 16
2 Sam. 6 0 6
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Neh. 1 1 2
Esth. 2 0 2
Job 4 0 4
Ps. 2 1 3
Prov. 1 0 1
Isa. 6 1 7
Jer. 7 0 7
Ezek. 2 0 2
Dan. 3 1 4
Hosea 2 0 2
Jonah 2 0 2
Zech. 2 0 2
NT 74 5 79
BM 94 1 95
DC 3 1 4
PGP 18 0 18
TOTAL 284 13 297

Deut. 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Ruth 2:11
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

Neh. 9:10
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

Ps. 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

Isa. 48:8
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Dan. 5:22
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;