Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'here' occurs 214 times in the standard works.

44 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'here' in the standard works and contain 20.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 22:16 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 21:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:85-86 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 3:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 23:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 23:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 29:15 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 3:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 17:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 25:24 (2 in 1 verse)

James 2:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 14:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 24:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 104 5004 5108
NT 58 1508 1566
BM 18 2339 2357
1 Ne. 0 184 184
2 Ne. 2 308 310
Jacob 1 111 112
Enos 0 11 11
Jarom 0 4 4
Omni 0 12 12
W of M 0 10 10
Mosiah 4 270 274
Alma 8 617 625
Hel. 2 172 174
3 Ne. 0 287 287
4 Ne. 0 32 32
Morm. 1 73 74
Ether 0 188 188
Moro. 0 60 60
DC 25 903 928
PGP 9 228 237
TOTAL 214 9982 10196

2 Ne. 16:8
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: Here am I; send me.

2 Ne. 28:30
For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.

Jacob 5:16
And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard, and also the servant, went down into the vineyard to labor. And it came to pass that the servant said unto his master: Behold, look here; behold the tree.

Mosiah 12:16
Behold, here is the man, we deliver him into thy hands; thou mayest do with him as seemeth thee good.

Mosiah 18:8
And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for thus were they called) and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another's burdens, that they may be light;

Mosiah 20:13
And they took him and bound up his wounds, and brought him before Limhi, and said: Behold, here is the king of the Lamanites; he having received a wound has fallen among their dead, and they have left him; and behold, we have brought him before you; and now let us slay him.

Mosiah 26:11
And he said unto the king: Behold, here are many whom we have brought before thee, who are accused of their brethren; yea, and they have been taken in divers iniquities. And they do not repent of their iniquities; therefore we have brought them before thee, that thou mayest judge them according to their crimes.

Alma 5:5
And behold, after that, they were brought into bondage by the hands of the Lamanites in the wilderness; yea, I say unto you, they were in captivity, and again the Lord did deliver them out of bondage by the power of his word; and we were brought into this land, and here we began to establish the church of God throughout this land also.

Alma 11:22
And Amulek said unto him: Yea, if it be according to the Spirit of the Lord, which is in me; for I shall say nothing which is contrary to the Spirit of the Lord. And Zeezrom said unto him: Behold, here are six onties of silver, and all these will I give thee if thou wilt deny the existence of a Supreme Being.

Alma 27:15
And it came to pass that Ammon said unto them: Behold, I and my brethren will go forth into the land of Zarahemla, and ye shall remain here until we return; and we will try the hearts of our brethren, whether they will that ye shall come into their land.

Alma 30:21
And it came to pass that he caused that he should be carried out of the land. And he came over into the land of Gideon, and began to preach unto them also; and here he did not have much success, for he was taken and bound and carried before the high priest, and also the chief judge over the land.

Alma 31:26
And he lifted up his voice to heaven, and cried, saying: O, how long, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that thy servants shall dwell here below in the flesh, to behold such gross wickedness among the children of men?

Alma 40:1
Now my son, here is somewhat more I would say unto thee; for I perceive that thy mind is worried concerning the resurrection of the dead.

Alma 44:8
And now it came to pass that when Zerahemnah had heard these sayings he came forth and delivered up his sword and his cimeter, and his bow into the hands of Moroni, and said unto him: Behold, here are our weapons of war; we will deliver them up unto you, but we will not suffer ourselves to take an oath unto you, which we know that we shall break, and also our children; but take our weapons of war, and suffer that we may depart into the wilderness; otherwise we will retain our swords, and we will perish or conquer.

Alma 56:9
But behold, here is one thing in which we may have great joy. For behold, in the twenty and sixth year, I, Helaman, did march at the head of these two thousand young men to the city of Judea, to assist Antipus, whom ye had appointed a leader over the people of that part of the land.

Hel. 9:20
Saying unto him: Thou art confederate; who is this man that hath done this murder? Now tell us, and acknowledge thy fault; saying, Behold here is money; and also we will grant unto thee thy life if thou wilt tell us, and acknowledge the agreement which thou hast made with him.

Hel. 13:34
Behold, we lay a tool here and on the morrow it is gone; and behold, our swords are taken from us in the day we have sought them for battle.

Morm. 6:4
And it came to pass that we did march forth to the land of Cumorah, and we did pitch our tents around about the hill Cumorah; and it was in a land of many waters, rivers, and fountains; and here we had hope to gain advantage over the Lamanites.