βουλή boulē

Greek word for “plan” · Strong’s G1012 · used 12 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

βουλή, -ῆς, ἡ; (βούλομαι);

How it is translated

Glosses given for boulē in context, with how often each is used:

• counsel 4
• plan 3
• purpose 3
• decision 1
• motives 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 27 (2), Luke 7 (1), Luke 23 (1), Acts 2 (1), Acts 4 (1), Acts 5 (1), Acts 13 (1), Acts 20 (1), 1 Corinthians 4 (1), Ephesians 1 (1)

Forms

• βουλὴν 4
• βουλῇ 3
• βουλὴ 2
• βουλή 1
• βουλὰς 1
• βουλῆς 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with boulē more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• προορίζω proorizō “to predestine” 2
• χείρ cheir “hand” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 2

Key verses

The verses using boulē that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 7:30 — But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
• Luke 23:51 — (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
• Acts 2:23 — Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• Acts 4:28 — For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
• Acts 5:38 — And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
• Acts 13:36 — For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
• Acts 20:27 — For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
• Acts 27:12 — And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to…
• Acts 27:42 — And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
• 1 Corinthians 4:5 — Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels…
• Ephesians 1:11 — In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Hebrews 6:17 — Where in God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.