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# מוֹעֵצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4156

**counsel** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

counsel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4156/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מועֵצָה: n.f. counsel, plan, principle, device [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4156/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. counsel, plan, principle, device;—pl.abs. מֹעֵצוֹת Pr 22:20 (‖ דַּעַת) in good sense; in bad sense מוֹעֵצוֹת Je 7:24 (‖ שְׁרִרוּת לִבָּם הָרָע); מֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶם Ho 11:6 ψ 5:11; מוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶם ψ 81:13; מֹעֲצֹתֵיהֶם Pr 1:31; מֹעֲצוֹתָם Mi 6:16.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: schemes (3); their own (3); counsels (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 22:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.20/#tree)

הֲלֹ֤א כָתַ֣בְתִּי לְ֭ךָ שָׁלִישִׁ֑ים בְּמ֖וֹעֵצֹ֣ת וָדָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* ? not have.I.written for you officers (in) counsels and knowledge

*JPS 1917:* Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge;

[Psalms 81:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.13/#tree)

וָֽ֭אֲשַׁלְּחֵהוּ בִּשְׁרִיר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם יֵ֝לְכ֗וּ בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I gave.it.over in the.stubbornness their.heart their they.walked in their.own schemes

*JPS 1917:* So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4156/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).