Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4156: מוֹעֵצָה

môwʻêtsâh · pronounced mo-ay-tsaw' · “counsel”

Definition

a purpose

KJV translates it as: counsel, device.

Word origin: from H3289 (יָעַץ);

Extended definition

counsel, plan, principal, device

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4156 is translated

  • their ×5
  • counsels ×2

Bible verses with H4156 (môwʻêtsâh)

Môwʻêtsâh appears in 7 verses.

  • Psalms 5:10

    Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

  • Psalms 81:12

    So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

  • Proverbs 1:31

    Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

  • Proverbs 22:20

    Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

  • Jeremiah 7:24

    But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Hosea 11:6

    And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

  • Micah 6:16

    For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.