עוּץ
ʻûwts · H5779 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to take counsel
Action by which two or more people discuss the best way forward
ExamplesJudges 19:30 All who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day when the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Consider it, make a plan, and speak up!”
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to take counsel
Action by which two or more people or parties discuss the best way forward
ExamplesIsaiah 8:10 “Devise a plan, but it will fail; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us.”
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵצָהcounsel, advice, plan 1
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 1 word
- יָעַץ yâʻats · H3289 · to plan, to plot, to devise
- Common Hebrew verb for giving counsel or taking counsel together; semantically overlaps with עוּץ in the domain of deliberation and advice, though יָעַץ is far more frequent and the standard term for counseling activity
In the other Testament 2 words
- συμβουλεύω symbouleúō · G4823 · to advise, to counsel, to confer
- Greek verb for taking counsel or giving advice, standard translation equivalent for the Hebrew concept of deliberating or consulting together
- βουλεύω bouleúō · G1011 · to purpose, to plan, to intend
- Greek verb for deliberating or taking counsel, appropriate equivalent for the Hebrew notion of consulting together
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- עוּץ describes taking counsel or deliberating together, as in Judges 20:7's "give your advice and counsel here."
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5779. uts [עוּץ] verb counsel, plan (Aramaic id.; || form of יעץ); — only Qal Imperative…
[עוּץ] verb counsel, plan (Aramaic id.; || form of יעץ); — only
Qal Imperative masculine plural עֻ֫צוּ Jdg 19:30 (GFM reads עֵצָה, but see Bu), Isa 8:10 with accusative of congnate meaning with verb עֵצָה. (StaThLz 1894, Apr. 28, 235 derives עֻצוּ from יעץ).
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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