To plan
עוּץStrong’s H5779uts
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Uts is the Hebrew word usually translated “take counsel” and “plan”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to counsel, plan
How it's translated
- take counsel 1
- plan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עוּץ uts · to plan
(Qal) to counsel, plan
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLAN,noun
- A draught or form; properly, the representation of any thing drawn on a plane, as a map or chart, which is a representation of some portion of land or water.
- A scheme devised; a project; the form of something to be done existing in the mind, with the several parts adjusted in idea, expressed in words or committed to writing; as the plan of a constitution of government; the plan of a treaty; the plan of an expedition.
All definitions and other forms of “plan”
PLAN, verb transitive
To form a draught or representation of any intended work.
- To scheme; to devise; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country; to plan a reduction of taxes or of the national debt.
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.