Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'spread' occurs 133 times in the standard works.

23 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'spread' in the standard works and contain 17.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 13:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 13:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 4:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 17:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 6:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)


Hel. 11:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

 11:20 And thus it did come to pass that the people of Nephi began to prosper again in the land, and began to build up their waste places, and began to multiply and spread, even until they did cover the whole face of the land, both on the northward and on the southward, from the sea west to the sea east.

 11:21 And it came to pass that the seventy and sixth year did end in peace. And the seventy and seventh year began in peace; and the church did spread throughout the face of all the land; and the more part of the people, both the Nephites and the Lamanites, did belong to the church; and they did have exceedingly great peace in the land; and thus ended the seventy and seventh year.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 101 22 123
NT 8 0 8
BM 20 5 25
2 Ne. 1 0 1
Jarom 1 0 1
Mosiah 1 0 1
Alma 1 2 3
Hel. 6 2 8
3 Ne. 2 0 2
4 Ne. 2 0 2
Morm. 1 0 1
Ether 5 1 6
DC 3 1 4
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 133 28 161

Hel. 3:5
Yea, and even they did spread forth into all parts of the land, into whatever parts it had not been rendered desolate and without timber, because of the many inhabitants who had before inherited the land.

Hel. 3:8
And it came to pass that they did multiply and spread, and did go forth from the land southward to the land northward, and did spread insomuch that they began to cover the face of the whole earth, from the sea south to the sea north, from the sea west to the sea east.

Hel. 6:28
And also it is that same being who put it into the hearts of the people to build a tower sufficiently high that they might get to heaven. And it was that same being who led on the people who came from that tower into this land; who spread the works of darkness and abominations over all the face of the land, until he dragged the people down to an entire destruction, and to an everlasting hell.

Hel. 6:38
And it came to pass on the other hand, that the Nephites did build them up and support them, beginning at the more wicked part of them, until they had overspread all the land of the Nephites, and had seduced the more part of the righteous until they had come down to believe in their works and partake of their spoils, and to join with them in their secret murders and combinations.

Hel. 11:20
And thus it did come to pass that the people of Nephi began to prosper again in the land, and began to build up their waste places, and began to multiply and spread, even until they did cover the whole face of the land, both on the northward and on the southward, from the sea west to the sea east.

Hel. 11:21
And it came to pass that the seventy and sixth year did end in peace. And the seventy and seventh year began in peace; and the church did spread throughout the face of all the land; and the more part of the people, both the Nephites and the Lamanites, did belong to the church; and they did have exceedingly great peace in the land; and thus ended the seventy and seventh year.

Hel. 16:22
And many more things did the people imagine up in their hearts, which were foolish and vain; and they were much disturbed, for Satan did stir them up to do iniquity continually; yea, he did go about spreading rumors and contentions upon all the face of the land, that he might harden the hearts of the people against that which was good and against that which should come.