Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sea' occurs 526 times in the standard works.

212 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sea' in the standard works and contain 40.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 81 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 14:21-15:4 (15 in 15 verses)

Jonah 1:9-15 (8 in 7 verses)

Ex. 15:19-22 (5 in 4 verses)

Hel. 3:8 (4 in 1 verse)

Ether 2:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 47:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

John 6:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Josh. 12:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Mark 4:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 22:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Josh. 24:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Jonah 1:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Rev. 8:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 34:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 4:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 9:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 106:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 23:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 26:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 47:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 14:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 6:47-49 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 7:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 52:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 6:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 14:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 30:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:44 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 72:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 51:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 2:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 8:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Micah 7:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 10:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 5:13 (2 in 1 verse)

John 6:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 13:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 16:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 8:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 50:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 11:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 2:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 33:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 34:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 9:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 8:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 24:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 2:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 8:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 4:41-5:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 10:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 10:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 302 247 549
Gen. 8 8 16
Ex. 32 22 54
Lev. 0 13 13
Num. 15 17 32
Deut. 12 12 24
Josh. 33 3 36
Judg. 3 4 7
1 Sam. 1 7 8
2 Sam. 2 2 4
1 Kgs. 15 6 21
2 Kgs. 4 6 10
1 Chr. 2 5 7
2 Chr. 10 8 18
Ezra 1 5 6
Neh. 3 5 8
Esth. 1 5 6
Job 12 25 37
Ps. 32 22 54
Prov. 3 9 12
Eccl. 2 5 7
Song. 0 3 3
Isa. 28 6 34
Jer. 17 12 29
Lam. 2 1 3
Ezek. 21 20 41
Dan. 2 7 9
Hosea 2 4 6
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 5 2 7
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 11 1 12
Micah 3 0 3
Nahum 3 0 3
Hab. 4 0 4
Zeph. 3 1 4
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 7 0 7
NT 98 128 226
BM 95 189 284
DC 19 101 120
PGP 12 10 22
TOTAL 526 675 1201

Isa. 5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Isa. 9:1
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

Isa. 10:22
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Isa. 10:26
And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

Isa. 11:9
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Isa. 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isa. 11:15
And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

Isa. 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

Isa. 18:2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Isa. 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

Isa. 21:1
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isa. 23:2
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Isa. 23:4
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

Isa. 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Isa. 24:14
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

Isa. 24:15
Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

Isa. 27:1
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isa. 42:10
Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Isa. 43:16
Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Isa. 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Isa. 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Isa. 51:10
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

Isa. 51:15
But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.

Isa. 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Isa. 60:5
Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

Isa. 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?