Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4156
מוֹעֵצָה
moetsahmo-ay-tsaw'
counsel
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: môwʻêtsâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4156is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4156
a purpose
The King James renders it: counsel, device.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
moetsah is rendered "counsel". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 5:10Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
Psalms 5:10מִֽמֹּעֲצ֪וֹתֵ֫יהֶ֥ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in counsels2
- and from own schemes their1
- from own schemes their1
- from schemes their1
- in own schemes their1
- in schemes their1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃1
- בְּמ֖וֹעֵצֹ֣ת1
- בְּמֹ֣עֵצ֔וֹת1
- בְּמֹֽעֲצוֹתָ֑ם1
- וּֽמִמֹּעֲצֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם1
- מִֽמֹּעֲצ֪וֹתֵ֫יהֶ֥ם1
- מִֽמֹּעֲצ֖וֹתֵיהֶֽם׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural4HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · feminine plural2HR/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
Psalms
two uses
Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
- מִֽמֹּעֲצ֪וֹתֵ֫יהֶ֥םmimoatzoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from own schemes their
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃bemoatzoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: in own schemes their
Proverbs
two uses
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- וּֽמִמֹּעֲצֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣םumimoatzoteihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and from own schemes their
Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
- בְּמ֖וֹעֵצֹ֣תbemoetzotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in counsels
Jeremiah
one use
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- בְּמֹ֣עֵצ֔וֹתbemoetzotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in counsels
Hosea
one use
A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
- מִֽמֹּעֲצ֖וֹתֵיהֶֽם׃mimoatzoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from schemes their
Micah
one use
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- בְּמֹֽעֲצוֹתָ֑םbemoatzotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: in schemes their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.