Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'three' occurs 600 times in the standard works.

222 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'three' in the standard works and contain 37% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 83 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 23:16-23 (9 in 8 verses)

1 Chr. 11:18-25 (9 in 8 verses)

2 Chr. 4:4-5 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:25-27 (5 in 3 verses)

Matt. 12:40 (4 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:13 (4 in 1 verse)

Ex. 25:32-33 (4 in 2 verses)

Ex. 27:14-15 (4 in 2 verses)

Ex. 37:18-19 (4 in 2 verses)

Ex. 38:14-15 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 5:7-8 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 21:10-12 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 40:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 40:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 48:31-34 (4 in 4 verses)

4 Ne. 1:45-48 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 15:9 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 10:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 40:10 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 30:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 24:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 5:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 2:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 2:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Job 1:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 52:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 10:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 12:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 35:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 5:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 10:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 11:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 36:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 40:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 40:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Jonah 1:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 12:52 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 9:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 36:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 36:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 38:8 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 8:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 2:28 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 5:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 10:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 22:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 25:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 11:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 23:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 2:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 14:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 35:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 2:64-65 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 10:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:66-67 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 3:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 10:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 11:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 6:7-7:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 3:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 5:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 410 86 496
NT 75 8 83
Matt. 12 0 12
Mark 6 0 6
Luke 10 1 11
John 5 0 5
Acts 17 3 20
1 Cor. 4 0 4
2 Cor. 1 0 1
Gal. 1 0 1
1 Tim. 1 1 2
Heb. 2 0 2
James 1 0 1
1 Jn. 4 0 4
Rev. 11 3 14
BM 84 1 85
DC 26 0 26
PGP 5 0 5
TOTAL 600 95 695

Matt. 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Matt. 13:33
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Matt. 15:32
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Matt. 17:4
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

Matt. 18:16
But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Matt. 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matt. 26:61
And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

Matt. 27:40
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Matt. 27:63
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

Mark 8:2
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

Mark 8:31
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Mark 9:5
And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

Mark 14:5
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Mark 14:58
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Mark 15:29
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

Luke 1:56
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.

Luke 2:46
And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Luke 4:25
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

Luke 9:33
And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.

Luke 10:36
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

Luke 11:5
And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

Luke 12:52
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Luke 13:7
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

Luke 13:21
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Luke 24:13
And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

John 2:6
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

John 2:20
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

John 12:5
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

John 21:11
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Acts 5:7
And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

Acts 7:14
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

Acts 7:20
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

Acts 9:9
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

Acts 10:19
While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

Acts 11:10
And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Acts 11:11
And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.

Acts 17:2
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Acts 19:8
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

Acts 20:3
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.

Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Acts 23:23
And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;

Acts 25:1
Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

Acts 27:37
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

Acts 28:7
In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

Acts 28:11
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

Acts 28:12
And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.

Acts 28:15
And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.

Acts 28:17
And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

1 Cor. 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Cor. 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

1 Cor. 14:27
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

1 Cor. 14:29
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

2 Cor. 13:1
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

Gal. 1:18
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

1 Tim. 5:9
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

1 Tim. 5:19
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

Heb. 10:28
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Heb. 11:23
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

James 5:17
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

1 Jn. 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

1 Jn. 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

Rev. 6:6
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

Rev. 8:13
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

Rev. 9:18
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

Rev. 11:3
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Rev. 11:9
And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Rev. 11:11
And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

Rev. 12:6
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Rev. 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Rev. 16:13
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Rev. 16:19
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Rev. 21:13
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.