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# עוּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5779

**counsel** — used 2 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/1506/5779/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוּץ: vb. counsel, plan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5779/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. counsel, plan (Aramaic id.; ‖ form of יעץ);—only Imv. mpl. עֻ֫צוּ Ju 19:30 (GFM reads עֵצָה, but v. Bu), Is 8:10 c. acc. cogn. עֵצָה. (StaThLZ 1894, Apr. 28, 235 der. עֻצוּ from יעץ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: make a plan (1); plan (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 8:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.10/#tree)

עֻ֥צוּ עֵצָ֖ה וְתֻפָ֑ר דַּבְּר֤וּ דָבָר֙ וְלֹ֣א יָק֔וּם כִּ֥י עִמָּ֖נוּ אֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* plan a.plan and it.will.be.frustrated speak a.word and not it.will.stand (dm) \[is\].with us God

*JPS 1917:* Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.

[Judges 19:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.19.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.19.30/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה כָל־הָרֹאֶ֗ה וְאָמַר֙ לֹֽא־נִהְיְתָ֤ה וְלֹֽא־נִרְאֲתָה֙ כָּזֹ֔את לְמִיּ֞וֹם עֲל֤וֹת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם עַ֖ד הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה שִֽׂימוּ־לָכֶ֥ם עָלֶ֖יהָ עֻ֥צוּ וְדַבֵּֽרוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was every (the).\[one who\].saw and he.said not it.has.occurred and not it.has.been.seen like this (to).from the day came.up the.people of.Israel from the.land of.Egypt until the day (the) this set for yourselves on it make.a.plan and speak

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, that all that saw it said: 'Such a thing hath not happened nor been seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5779.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5779/): 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).