Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'beginning' occurs 249 times in the standard works.

56 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'beginning' in the standard works and contain 22.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 23 minutes to read the entire list.

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4 Ne. 1:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 2:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 77:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 94:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 1:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 21:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Jn. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 87:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 115:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 3 57
Gen. 5 0 5
Ex. 1 0 1
Num. 0 2 2
Deut. 3 0 3
Judg. 1 0 1
Ruth 2 0 2
2 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 0 1
Ezra 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 2 0 2
Prov. 6 0 6
Eccl. 3 0 3
Isa. 12 0 12
Jer. 5 0 5
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 1 1 2
Dan. 2 0 2
Hosea 1 0 1
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 1 0 1
NT 52 1 53
BM 56 0 56
DC 60 0 60
PGP 27 0 27
TOTAL 249 4 253

2 Sam. 21:9
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

2 Sam. 21:10
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.