Job 37:12
And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
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1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
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מוֹעֵצָה
môwʻêtsâh · mo-ay-tsaw'
6 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a purpose
Strong's KJV usage: counsel, device.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 5:10Strong's last: Micah 6:16
Open full H4156 profile →תַּחְבֻּלָה
tachbulâh · takh-boo-law'
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
(only in plural) properly, steerage (as a management of ropes), i.e. (figuratively) guidance or (by implication) a plan
Strong's KJV usage: good advice, (wise) counsels.
Strong's first: Job 37:12Strong's last: Proverbs 12:5
Open full H8458 profile →עֵצָה
ʻêtsâh · ay-tsaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form85 total Strong's occurrences
advice; by implication, plan; also prudence
Strong's KJV usage: advice, advisement, counsel([-lor]), purpose.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 25:1Strong's last: Isaiah 47:13
Open full H6098 profile →βουλή
boulḗ · boo-lay'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
volition, i.e. (objectively) advice, or (by implication) purpose
Strong's KJV usage: :--+ advise, counsel, will.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 4:5Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 4:5
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H8458
And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
H4156
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
H4156
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
H8458
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
H8458
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
H4156
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
H6098
O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
H6098
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
H4156
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
H4156
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
H4156
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
G1012
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
English meaning and historical usage.
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counsel
COUNSEL, noun [Latin , to consult; to ask, to assail.]
1. Advice; opinion, or instruction, given upon request or otherwise, for directing the judgment or conduct of another; opinion given upon deliberation or consultation.
Every purpose is established by counsel Proverbs 20:5.
Thou hast not hearkened to my counsel 2 Chronicles 25:16.
2. Consultation; interchange of opinions.
We took sweet counsel together. Psalms 55:14.
3. Deliberation; examination of consequences.
They all confess that, in the working of that first cause, counsel is used, reason followed, and a way observed.
4. Prudence; deliberate opinion or judgment, or the faculty or habit of judging with caution.
O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honor. Ecclus. 25.
The law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. Ezekiel 7:26.
5. In a bad sense, evil advice or designs; art; machination.
The counsel of the froward is carried headlong. Job 5:13.
6. Secresy; the secrets entrusted in consultation; secret opinions or purposes. Let a man keep his own counsel
7. In a scriptural sense, purpose; design; will; decree.
What thy counsel determined before to be done. Acts 4:28.
To show the immutability of his counsel Hebrews 6:17.
8. Directions of God's word.
Thou shalt guide me by thy counsel Psalms 73:24.
9. The will of God or his truth and doctrines concerning the way of salvation.
I have not shunned to declare to you all the counsel of God. Acts 20:27.
10. Those who give counsel in law; any counselor or advocate, or any number of counselors, barristers or sergeants; as the plaintiffs counsel or the defendants counsel The attorney-general and solicitor-general are the kings counsel In this sense, the word has no plural; but in the singular number, is applicable to one or more persons.
COUNSEL, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To give advice or deliberate opinion to another for the government of his conduct; to advise.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire. Revelations 3.
2. To exhort, warn, admonish, or instruct. We ought frequently to counsel our children against the vices of the age.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped.
3. To advise or recommend; as, to counsel a crime. [Not much used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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