Counsel
מוֹעֵצָהStrong’s H4156moetsah (mo-e-tsah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moetsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from own schemes their”, “own schemes their” and “counsels”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Counsel, plan, principal, device
How it's translated
- from own schemes their 1
- in own schemes their 1
- and from own schemes their 1
- counsels 1
- in counsels 1
- from schemes their 1
- in schemes their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Proverbs 2
- Jeremiah 1
- Hosea 1
- Micah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Proverbs 22:20Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
- Jeremiah 7:24But 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.
- Hosea 11:6And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
- Micah 6:16For 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.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹעֵצָה moetsah · counsel
counsel, plan, principal, device
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “counsel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COUNSEL, noun
[Latin, to consult; to ask, to assail.]
- 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 20:18“Thou hast not hearkened to my counsel” 2 Chronicles 25:16
- Consultation; interchange of opinions.“We took sweet counsel together” Psalms 55:14
- Deliberation; examination of consequences.
- Prudence; deliberate opinion or judgment, or the faculty or habit of judging with caution.“The law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients” Ezekiel 7:26
All definitions and other forms of “counsel”
- In a bad sense, evil advice or designs; art; machination.“The counsel of the froward is carried headlong” Job 5:13
- Secresy; the secrets entrusted in consultation; secret opinions or purposes.
- In a scriptural sense, purpose; design; will; decree.“What thy counsel determined before to be done” Acts 4:28
- Directions of Gods word.“Thou shalt guide me by thy counsel” Psalms 73:24
- 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
- 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]
- To give advice or deliberate opinion to another for the government of his conduct; to advise.
- To exhort, warn, admonish, or instruct.
- To advise or recommend; as, to counsel a crime. [Not much used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.