Unit 83
great
29 occurrences in 22 verses
3 Nephi 8:3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25,
3 Nephi 9:3, 4, 5, 9, 12,
3 Nephi 10:2, 4, 18
3 Nephi 8:3
And the people began to look with great earnestness for the sign
which had been given by the prophet Samuel, the Lamanite,
yea, for the time that there should be darkness
for the space of three days over the face of the land.
3 Nephi 8:4
And there began to be great doubtings and disputations among the people,
notwithstanding so many signs had been given.
3 Nephi 8:5
And it came to pass in the thirty and fourth year,
in the first month, on the fourth day of the month,
there arose a great storm,
such an one as never had been known in all the land.
3 Nephi 8:6
And there was also a great and terrible tempest;
and there was terrible thunder,
insomuch that it did shake the whole earth
as if it was about to divide asunder.
3 Nephi 8:10
And the earth was carried up upon the city of Moronihah,
that in the place of the city there became a great mountain.
3 Nephi 8:11
And there was a great and terrible destruction in the land southward.
3 Nephi 8:12
But behold, there was a more great and terrible destruction in the land northward;
for behold, the whole face of the land was changed,
because of the tempest and the whirlwinds,
and the thunderings and the lightnings,
and the exceedingly great quaking of the whole earth;
3 Nephi 8:14
And many great and notable cities were sunk,
and many were burned,
and many were shaken till the buildings thereof had fallen to the earth,
and the inhabitants thereof were slain,
and the places were left desolate.
3 Nephi 8:15
And there were some cities which remained;
but the damage thereof was exceedingly great,
and there were many in them who were slain.
3 Nephi 8:19
And it came to pass that when the thunderings, and the lightnings,
and the storm, and the tempest, and the quakings of the earth did cease —
for behold, they did last for about the space of three hours;
and it was said by some that the time was greater;
nevertheless, all these great and terrible things were done
in about the space of three hours —
and then behold, there was darkness upon the face of the land.
3 Nephi 8:22
And there was not any light seen,
neither fire, nor glimmer,
neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars,
for so great were the mists of darkness
which were upon the face of the land.
3 Nephi 8:23
And it came to pass that it did last for the space of three days
that there was no light seen;
and there was great mourning and howling and weeping
among all the people continually;
yea, great were the groanings of the people,
because of the darkness and the great destruction
which had come upon them.
3 Nephi 8:24
And in one place they were heard to cry, saying:
O that we had repented before this great and terrible day,
and then would our brethren have been spared,
and they would not have been burned in that great city Zarahemla.
3 Nephi 8:25
And in another place they were heard to cry and mourn, saying:
O that we had repented before this great and terrible day,
and had not killed and stoned the prophets, and cast them out;
then would our mothers and our fair daughters, and our children have been spared,
and not have been buried up in that great city Moronihah.
And thus were the howlings of the people great and terrible.
3 Nephi 9:3
Behold, that great city Zarahemla have I burned with fire,
and the inhabitants thereof.
3 Nephi 9:4
And behold, that great city Moroni have I caused
to be sunk in the depths of the sea,
and the inhabitants thereof to be drowned.
3 Nephi 9:5
And behold, that great city Moronihah have I covered with earth,
and the inhabitants thereof,
to hide their iniquities and their abominations from before my face,
that the blood of the prophets and the saints
shall not come any more unto me against them.
3 Nephi 9:9
And behold, that great city Jacobugath,
which was inhabited by the people of king Jacob,
have I caused to be burned with fire
because of their sins and their wickedness,
which was above all the wickedness of the whole earth,
because of their secret murders and combinations;
for it was they that did destroy the peace of my people
and the government of the land;
therefore I did cause them to be burned,
to destroy them from before my face,
that the blood of the prophets and the saints
should not come up unto me any more against them.
3 Nephi 9:12
And many great destructions have I caused
to come upon this land, and upon this people,
because of their wickedness and their abominations.
3 Nephi 10:2
For so great was the astonishment of the people
that they did cease lamenting and howling
for the loss of their kindred which had been slain;
therefore there was silence in all the land for the space of many hours.
3 Nephi 10:4
O ye people of these great cities which have fallen,
who are descendants of Jacob,
yea, who are of the house of Israel,
how oft have I gathered you
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,
and have nourished you.
3 Nephi 10:18
And it came to pass that in the ending of the thirty and fourth year,
behold, I will show unto you that the people of Nephi who were spared,
and also those who had been called Lamanites, who had been spared,
did have great favors shown unto them,
and great blessings poured out upon their heads,
insomuch that soon after the ascension of Christ into heaven
he did truly manifest himself unto them —
