Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sow' occurs 45 times in the standard works.

8 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sow' in the standard works and contain 17.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 6:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 25:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 19:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 28 29 57
Gen. 1 1 2
Ex. 1 1 2
Lev. 7 3 10
Deut. 1 4 5
Judg. 0 2 2
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 2 1 3
Prov. 0 5 5
Eccl. 2 0 2
Isa. 4 4 8
Jer. 3 3 6
Ezek. 0 1 1
Hosea 2 1 3
Amos 0 1 1
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 0 1 1
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 9 42 51
BM 6 1 7
DC 2 3 5
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 45 75 120

Gen. 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

Ex. 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

Lev. 11:37
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

Lev. 26:5
And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

Deut. 11:10
For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

Deut. 21:4
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

Deut. 22:9
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Deut. 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Judg. 6:3
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

Judg. 9:45
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

Ps. 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Prov. 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Prov. 6:19
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Prov. 11:18
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Prov. 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Prov. 22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Isa. 19:7
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

Isa. 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Isa. 55:10
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

Isa. 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Jer. 2:2
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jer. 12:13
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jer. 50:16
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Ezek. 36:9
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Amos 9:13
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

Nahum 1:14
And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

Hag. 1:6
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.