מוֹעֵצָה
môwʻêtsâh · H4156 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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design, plan
Action by which humans exercise their minds to determine how they are going to achieve a particular purpose
ExamplesMicah 6:16 “The statutes of Omri And every work of the house of Ahab are maintained, And you walk by their plans. Therefore I will give you up for destruction, And your inhabitants for derision, And you will suffer the taunting of My people.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 5
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 6
- בin/on/with 6
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מְזִמָּה mᵉzimmâh · H4209 · plan, scheme, resourcefulness
- Both denote a deliberate plan or device; מְזִמָּה emphasizes considered purpose or scheme (can be neutral or negative), overlapping semantically with מוֹעֵצָה in contexts of deliberate planning or counsel.
- סוֹד çôwd · H5475 · council, company, friendship
- Both can denote counsel or deliberative assembly; סוֹד emphasizes the intimate or confidential nature of counsel/consultation, often used in contexts of private deliberation similar to מוֹעֵצָה.
In the other Testament 1 word
- βουλή boulḗ · G1012 · plan, intention, purpose
- Standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew מוֹעֵצָה, both denoting counsel, advice, or deliberate plan/purpose; the nouns are direct translation equivalents in LXX usage for words in the עֵצָה root family.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מוֹעֵצָה denotes counsel or a devised plan, as reflected in its gloss 'counsel, device' used of schemes devised in the mind (e.g. Psalm 5:10, Hosea 11:6), placing it among terms of deliberation and planning.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4156. moetsah [מוֺעֵצָה] noun feminine counsel, plan, principle, device; — plural…
[מוֺעֵצָה] noun feminine counsel, plan, principle, device; — plural absolute מֹעֵצוֺת Pro 22:20 (|| דַּעַת) in good sense; in bad sense מוֺעֵצוֺת Jer 7:24 (|| הָרָע לִבָּם שְׁרִרוּת); מֹעֲצוֺתֵיהֶם Hos 11:6; Psa 5:11; מוֺעֲצוֺתֵיהֶם Psa 81:13; מֹעֲצֹתֵיהֶם Pro 1:31; מֹעֲצוֺתָם Mic 6:16.
יַעֲקֹ֫בָה יַעֲקֹב, see below עקב.
יַעֲקָן see עֲקָן.
I. יער (√ of following; Arabic is be rugged, of mountain, etc., be difficult; rough or difficult place, mountain).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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