Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'taketh' occurs 86 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'taketh' in the standard works and contain 7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 147:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 33:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 6:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 45 1 46
Ex. 1 0 1
Deut. 6 0 6
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
Job 8 0 8
Ps. 7 0 7
Prov. 6 0 6
Eccl. 3 0 3
Isa. 5 0 5
Ezek. 3 0 3
Amos 1 0 1
NT 29 0 29
BM 8 0 8
DC 4 1 5
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 86 2 88

Ex. 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Deut. 5:11
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Deut. 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

Deut. 24:6
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

Deut. 25:11
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

Deut. 27:25
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deut. 32:11
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

Josh. 7:14
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.

Josh. 15:16
And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

Judg. 1:12
And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

1 Sam. 17:26
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Kgs. 14:10
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

1 Chr. 21:12
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Job 9:12
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Job 12:20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

Job 12:24
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Job 21:6
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Job 40:24
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Ps. 15:3
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Ps. 15:5
He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Ps. 118:7
The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

Ps. 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Ps. 147:10
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

Ps. 147:11
The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Ps. 149:4
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

Prov. 1:19
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Prov. 16:32
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Prov. 17:23
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Prov. 25:20
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

Prov. 26:17
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

Prov. 30:28
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

Eccl. 1:3
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Eccl. 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Eccl. 5:18
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

Isa. 13:14
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

Isa. 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Isa. 44:14
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

Isa. 51:18
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

Isa. 56:6
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Ezek. 16:32
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Ezek. 33:4
Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

Ezek. 33:5
He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

Amos 3:12
Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.