Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'know' occurs 1398 times in the standard works.

490 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'know' in the standard works and contain 35.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 200 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 17:22-29 (10 in 8 verses)

Alma 5:45-48 (7 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 9:1-5 (7 in 5 verses)

Moro. 7:15-19 (7 in 5 verses)

Alma 32:30-36 (7 in 7 verses)

John 7:26-29 (6 in 4 verses)

Alma 12:7-11 (6 in 5 verses)

Alma 36:26-30 (6 in 5 verses)

John 9:20-25 (6 in 6 verses)

1 Jn. 5:15-20 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Ne. 25:3-8 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 18:3-4 (5 in 2 verses)

John 14:4-7 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 17:42-46 (5 in 5 verses)

Hel. 9:12-16 (5 in 5 verses)

Morm. 7:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 8:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

John 9:29-31 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 2:3-5 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 29:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 30:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:34-36 (4 in 3 verses)

Hel. 15:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

John 8:52-55 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Jn. 2:18-21 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 12:30-33 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 16:21 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 15:14 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 19:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 33:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 8:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 29:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 40:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 45:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 21:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 4:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 28:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 4:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Thes. 3:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 2:29-3:2 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 17:53-55 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 24:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 38:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 9:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 9:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 4:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 11:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 18:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 20:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 132:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 29:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 48:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 3:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 8:43 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 17:26 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 6:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 7:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 13:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 39:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 139:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 1:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 7:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 9:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 47:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 52:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 59:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 31:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 6:3 (2 in 1 verse)

John 4:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 19:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 7:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 13:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 5:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 8:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jude 1:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 9:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 7:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:52 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 7:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 14:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 16:20 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 5:23 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:65 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 45:22 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 6:45 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 20:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 42:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 9:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 23:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 28:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 5:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 24:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 37:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 41:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 44:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 40:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)


Jer. 44:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

 44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

 44:29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:




Ezek. 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 12:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 30:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 37:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 13:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 24:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 24:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 13:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

John 10:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

John 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

John 13:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 17:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 26:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 6:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 6:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 8:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 6:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 2:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 4:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 3:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 3:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 17:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 33:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 7:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 5:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 36:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 39:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 18:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 21:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 29:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 5:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 7:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 8:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:72-73 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 49:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 50:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 67:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 123:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 464 397 861
Gen. 24 13 37
Ex. 29 8 37
Lev. 1 6 7
Num. 4 9 13
Deut. 16 20 36
Josh. 9 3 12
Judg. 7 4 11
Ruth 4 4 8
1 Sam. 18 8 26
2 Sam. 8 8 16
1 Kgs. 13 14 27
2 Kgs. 12 3 15
1 Chr. 4 3 7
2 Chr. 10 7 17
Ezra 3 3 6
Neh. 1 3 4
Esth. 3 2 5
Job 40 35 75
Ps. 34 51 85
Prov. 11 56 67
Eccl. 12 24 36
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 36 32 68
Jer. 40 23 63
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 84 8 92
Dan. 16 29 45
Hosea 10 9 19
Joel 2 1 3
Amos 2 1 3
Jonah 2 0 2
Micah 3 0 3
Nahum 0 2 2
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 4 3 7
Mal. 1 1 2
NT 299 277 576
BM 474 359 833
DC 130 146 276
PGP 31 23 54
TOTAL 1398 1202 2600

Jer. 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

Jer. 2:23
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Jer. 3:13
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

Jer. 3:15
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Jer. 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jer. 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Jer. 5:4
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.

Jer. 5:5
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Jer. 5:15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

Jer. 6:18
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

Jer. 6:27
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

Jer. 7:9
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

Jer. 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

Jer. 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 9:6
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 9:16
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Jer. 9:24
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

Jer. 10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jer. 10:23
O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Jer. 10:25
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Jer. 11:18
And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

Jer. 12:3
But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Jer. 13:12
Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

Jer. 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

Jer. 14:20
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

Jer. 15:14
And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

Jer. 15:15
O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Jer. 16:13
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

Jer. 16:21
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord.

Jer. 17:4
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

Jer. 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jer. 17:16
As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

Jer. 18:23
Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

Jer. 19:4
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Jer. 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.

Jer. 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Jer. 24:5
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

Jer. 24:7
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

Jer. 26:15
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

Jer. 28:9
The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him.

Jer. 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jer. 29:16
Know that thus saith the Lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

Jer. 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.

Jer. 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jer. 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Jer. 36:19
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

Jer. 38:24
Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

Jer. 40:14
And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

Jer. 40:15
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

Jer. 42:19
The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

Jer. 42:22
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

Jer. 44:28
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

Jer. 44:29
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

Jer. 48:17
All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!

Jer. 48:30
I know his wrath, saith the Lord; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.

Jer. 51:17
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.