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# סוֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5475

**council** — used 21 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

council [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5475/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סוֹד: council, counsel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5475/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] council, counsel;—ס׳ abs. Pr 11:13 +; cstr. Je 6:11 +; sf. סוֹדִי Je 23:22 Jb 19:19; סוֹדוֹ Am 3:7 Pr 3:32; סֹדָם Gn 49:6;— council, in familiar conversation;— divan or circle of familiar friends, ס׳ בַּחוּרִים Je 6:11, ס׳ משׂחקים 15:17; מְתֵי סוֹדִי Jb 19:19 men of my intimate circle; (י׳) עמד בסוד Je 23:18, 22 in the intimate circle of י׳; בסוד אלוה Jb 15:8; in bad sense, ס׳ מְרֵעִים ψ 64:3. assembly, company, ס׳ יְשָׁרִים ψ 111:1 (‖ עֵדָה); סוֹד עמי Ez 13:9; ס׳ קדשׁים ψ 89:8 (of angels); in bad sense, בסוד בא Gn 49:6 (‖ קהל). counsel, taken by those in familiar conversation: counsel itself, מחשׁבות באין סוד Pr 15:22 thoughts without counsel; of intimate friendship, ψ 55:15 נַמְתִּיק סוֹד; in bad sense, of crafty plotting 83:4 יַעֲרִימוּ סוֹד. secret counsel, which may be revealed (גלה), Am 3:7 Pr 11:13; 20:19; 25:9. familiar converse with God, intimacy, ס׳ י׳ ליראיו ψ 25:14 intimacy with י׳ have those who fear him (‖ ברית), את־ישׁרים סודוֹ Pr 3:32 with the upright is his intimacy; here also Jb 29:4 (si vera l.) Di De al.; Siegf Du cf. Buhl Lex בְּסֹךְ when Eloah sheltered my tent.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: council (4); counsel (4); secret counsel (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 64:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.3/#tree)

תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי מִסּ֣וֹד מְרֵעִ֑ים מֵ֝רִגְשַׁ֗ת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* you will.hide.me from.\[the\] secret.counsel of.evil-doers from.\[the\] unrest of.\[those.who\].do (of).wickedness

*JPS 1917:* Hide me from the council of evil-doers; from the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

[Proverbs 3:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.32/#tree)

כִּ֤י תוֹעֲבַ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה נָל֑וֹז וְֽאֶת־יְשָׁרִ֥ים סוֹדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].(the).abomination of.Yahweh \[one.who.is\].crooked and.\[is\] with upright.\[people\] intimacy his

*JPS 1917:* For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD; but His counsel is with the upright.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5475.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5475/): 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).