Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'head' occurs 455 times in the standard works.

124 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'head' in the standard works and contain 27.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 47 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Cor. 11:3-10 (9 in 8 verses)

Lev. 13:40-45 (7 in 6 verses)

Gen. 48:14-18 (6 in 5 verses)

Num. 6:5-9 (5 in 5 verses)

Isa. 7:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 17:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 4:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 2:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 50:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 15:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 1:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 49:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 16:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 21:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 6:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 33:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 12:30 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 13:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 4:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 20:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 7:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 3:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Eph. 5:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 8:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 28:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:57 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 40:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 40:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 29:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 11:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 9:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Hab. 3:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 27:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 19:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 15:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 305 115 420
Gen. 17 2 19
Ex. 11 6 17
Lev. 41 6 47
Num. 13 7 20
Deut. 9 5 14
Josh. 4 9 13
Judg. 11 3 14
1 Sam. 16 4 20
2 Sam. 25 1 26
1 Kgs. 9 3 12
2 Kgs. 15 3 18
1 Chr. 5 15 20
2 Chr. 2 6 8
Ezra 2 0 2
Neh. 1 1 2
Esth. 4 0 4
Job 7 3 10
Ps. 21 8 29
Prov. 7 0 7
Eccl. 2 0 2
Song. 6 0 6
Isa. 18 3 21
Jer. 10 3 13
Lam. 3 2 5
Ezek. 17 20 37
Dan. 12 1 13
Hosea 1 0 1
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 3 0 3
Obad. 1 0 1
Jonah 3 0 3
Micah 1 3 4
Hab. 2 0 2
Zech. 4 1 5
NT 59 38 97
BM 66 44 110
DC 19 26 45
PGP 6 6 12
TOTAL 455 229 684

Deut. 1:15
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

Deut. 5:23
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

Deut. 19:5
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

Deut. 21:6
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

Deut. 21:12
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

Deut. 28:13
And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

Deut. 28:23
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

Deut. 28:35
The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

Deut. 28:44
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

Deut. 33:5
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.

Deut. 33:16
And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

Deut. 33:20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

Deut. 33:21
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel.