Word Explorer -- Frequency Data and Concordance for Every Word in Scripture
Key Takeaway
How many times does a word appear in scripture? Where does it cluster? Where is it absent? Word Explorer gives you frequency data and concordance results for every word, turning quantitative patterns into qualitative insight.
How many times does the word "covenant" appear in the Doctrine and Covenants? Where does "faith" cluster in the Book of Mormon? Is "repentance" more frequent in the New Testament or the Old? These are not trivial questions. Word frequency reveals emphasis, and emphasis reveals theology. Word Explorer gives you concordance results and distribution data for every word in the standard works, turning quantitative patterns into qualitative insight.
Search for "remember" and the results are striking. The word appears with extraordinary frequency in the Book of Mormon -- far more often per page than in any other volume. Passages like "O remember, remember, my sons, the words which king Benjamin spake unto his people" (Helaman 5:9) and Moroni's closing plea to "remember how merciful the Lord hath been" (Moroni 10:3) are part of a deliberate rhetorical pattern. The Book of Mormon's authors were deeply concerned with memory as a spiritual discipline. Seeing the frequency data confirms what careful readers sense intuitively: this is a book obsessed with not forgetting.
Distribution analysis also reveals surprising absences. The word "grace" appears only once in the entire Old Testament in the KJV (Zechariah 12:10), while it saturates Paul's epistles. This does not mean the concept is absent from the Old Testament -- the Hebrew "chen" (favor, grace) appears frequently, but the KJV translators rendered it differently. Word Explorer shows you this translation variance, connecting the English concordance to the underlying Hebrew and Greek so you can see when a word's absence in English masks its presence in the original language.
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Start for freeWord Explorer is also valuable for studying the unique vocabulary of the Restoration. Words like "dispensation," "restoration," "ordinance," and "sealing" have specific frequencies and distributions in the Doctrine and Covenants that differ markedly from biblical usage. Searching "seal" reveals its concentrated appearance in Doctrine and Covenants 132 and 128, where the sealing power is doctrinally defined. Comparing this with the word's rare biblical appearances (Ephesians 1:13, Revelation 7:3) highlights how the Restoration expanded a concept that the Bible only hints at. This kind of comparative frequency analysis is where Word Explorer becomes genuinely revelatory for scripture study.
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