Unit 76

great

29 occurrences in 23 verses

Helaman 3:3, 4, 17, 19, 24, 25, 32, 34, 36,

Helaman 4:11, 12, 13, 20, 26,

Helaman 5:17, 18, 19, 30,

Helaman 6:3, 5, 14, 31, 33

Helaman 3:3

And it came to pass in the forty and sixth, yea,

there was much contention and many dissensions;

in the which there were an exceedingly great many

who departed out of the land of Zarahemla,

and went forth unto the land northward to inherit the land.

Helaman 3:4

And they did travel to an exceedingly great distance,

insomuch that they came to large bodies of water and many rivers.

Helaman 3:17

And now I return again to mine account;

therefore, what I have spoken had passed

after there had been great contentions, and disturbances,

and wars, and dissensions, among the people of Nephi.

Helaman 3:19

And it came to pass that there was still great contention in the land,

yea, even in the forty and seventh year,

and also in the forty and eighth year.

Helaman 3:24

And it came to pass that in this same year

there was exceedingly great prosperity in the church,

insomuch that there were thousands who did join themselves unto the church

and were baptized unto repentance.

Helaman 3:25

And so great was the prosperity of the church,

and so many the blessings which were poured out upon the people,

that even the high priests and the teachers

were themselves astonished beyond measure.

Helaman 3:32

And it came to pass that there was peace and exceedingly great joy

in the remainder of the forty and ninth year;

yea, and also there was continual peace and great joy

in the fiftieth year of the reign of the judges.

Helaman 3:34

And they were lifted up in pride,

even to the persecution of many of their brethren.

Now this was a great evil,

which did cause the more humble part of the people

to suffer great persecutions, and to wade through much affliction.

Helaman 3:36

And it came to pass that the fifty and second year ended in peace also,

save it were the exceedingly great pride

which had gotten into the hearts of the people;

and it was because of their exceedingly great riches and their prosperity in the land;

and it did grow upon them from day to day.

Helaman 4:11

Now this great loss of the Nephites,

and the great slaughter which was among them,

would not have happened

had it not been for their wickedness

and their abomination which was among them;

yea, and it was among those also who professed to belong to the church of God.

Helaman 4:12

And it was because of the pride of their hearts,

because of their exceeding riches,

yea, it was because of their oppression to the poor,

withholding their food from the hungry,

withholding their clothing from the naked,

and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek,

making a mock of that which was sacred,

denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation,

murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery,

rising up in great contentions,

and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

Helaman 4:13

And because of this their great wickedness,

and their boastings in their own strength,

they were left in their own strength;

therefore they did not prosper,

but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites,

until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.

Helaman 4:20

And it came to pass, because of the greatness of the number of the Lamanites

the Nephites were in great fear, lest they should be overpowered,

and trodden down, and slain, and destroyed.

Helaman 4:26

For behold, they saw that the strength of the Lamanites

was as great as their strength, even man for man.

And thus had they fallen into this great transgression;

yea, thus had they become weak, because of their transgression,

in the space of not many years.

Helaman 5:17

And it came to pass that they did preach with great power,

insomuch that they did confound many of those dissenters

who had gone over from the Nephites,

insomuch that they came forth and did confess their sins

and were baptized unto repentance,

and immediately returned to the Nephites

to endeavor to repair unto them the wrongs which they had done.

Helaman 5:18

And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi did preach unto the Lamanites

with such great power and authority,

for they had power and authority given unto them that they might speak,

and they also had what they should speak given unto them—

Helaman 5:19

Therefore they did speak unto the great astonishment of the Lamanites,

to the convincing them,

insomuch that there were eight thousand of the Lamanites

who were in the land of Zarahemla and round about

baptized unto repentance,

and were convinced of the wickedness of the traditions of their fathers.

Helaman 5:30

And it came to pass when they heard this voice,

and beheld that it was not a voice of thunder,

neither was it a voice of a great tumultuous noise,

but behold, it was a still voice of perfect mildness,

as if it had been a whisper,

and it did pierce even to the very soul—

Helaman 6:3

Nevertheless, the people of the church did have great joy

because of the conversion of the Lamanites,

yea, because of the church of God, which had been established among them.

And they did fellowship one with another,

and did rejoice one with another,

and did have great joy.

Helaman 6:5

Yea, and many did preach with exceedingly great power and authority,

unto the bringing down many of them into the depths of humility,

to be the humble followers of God and the Lamb.

Helaman 6:14

And in the sixty and fifth year they did also have great joy and peace,

yea, much preaching and many prophecies concerning that which was to come.

And thus passed away the sixty and fifth year.

Helaman 6:31

And now behold, he had got great hold upon the hearts of the Nephites;

yea, insomuch that they had become exceedingly wicked;

yea, the more part of them had turned out of the way of righteousness,

and did trample under their feet the commandments of God,

and did turn unto their own ways,

and did build up unto themselves idols of their gold and their silver.

Helaman 6:33

And they did grow in their iniquities in the sixty and eighth year also,

to the great sorrow and lamentation of the righteous.