TBESH · H6098
עֵצָה · e.tsah · counsel
counsel, advice, purpose
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עֵצָה (e.tsah) means “counsel” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ay-tsaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
עֵצָה · e.tsah · counsel
counsel, advice, purpose
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from H3289 (יָעַץ); advice; by implication, plan; also prudence
KJV glosses: advice, advisement, counsel(l-(or)), purpose.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| counsel | 8 |
| the advice | 7 |
| the plans | 6 |
| my counsel | 4 |
| the counsel | 4 |
| a plan | 3 |
| their plans | 3 |
| according to the counsel | 2 |
| advice | 2 |
| counselors | 2 |
| from the counsel | 2 |
| had advised | 2 |
| in counsel | 2 |
| of counsel | 2 |
| to counsel | 2 |
| a strategy | 1 |
| and his own schemes | 1 |
| and the counsel | 1 |
| and verdict | 1 |
| as his counselor | 1 |
| as will counsel | 1 |
| but the purpose | 1 |
| by consultation | 1 |
| consulted | 1 |
| for his counsel | 1 |
| for my purpose | 1 |
| has counsel | 1 |
| has planned | 1 |
| his advice | 1 |
| his plan | 1 |
| in the counsel | 1 |
| is the plan | 1 |
| let the plan | 1 |
| my advice | 1 |
| my purpose | 1 |
| nor counsel | 1 |
| of its wooden idols | 1 |
| of my counsel | 1 |
| of their scheme | 1 |
| on rebellion | 1 |
| plans | 1 |
| plans succeed | 1 |
| plots | 1 |
| than that | 1 |
| the intentions | 1 |
| the schemes | 1 |
| their counsel | 1 |
| they are my | 1 |
| to have a strategy | 1 |
| turn the counsel | 1 |
| with your counsel | 1 |
| you | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| counsel | 16 |
| the counsel | 16 |
| and the counsel | 3 |
| and counsel | 2 |
| in counsel | 2 |
| my counsel | 2 |
| nor counsel | 2 |
| of counsel | 2 |
| their counsel | 2 |
| according to the counsel | 1 |
| all my counsel | 1 |
| all the counsel | 1 |
| all their counsel | 1 |
| all thy counsel | 1 |
| also after their counsel | 1 |
| and his own counsel | 1 |
| and let the counsel | 1 |
| but the counsel | 1 |
| by counsel | 1 |
| counsels | 1 |
| hath taken counsel | 1 |
| he hath counsel | 1 |
| his counsellor | 1 |
| i pray thee turn the counsel | 1 |
| is counsel | 1 |
| let me i pray thee give thee counsel | 1 |
| me with thy counsel | 1 |
| my counsellors | 1 |
| nevertheless the counsel | 1 |
| none of my counsel | 1 |
| not for his counsel | 1 |
| not in the counsel | 1 |
| of his own counsel | 1 |
| of the counsel | 1 |
| of them according to the counsel | 1 |
| of thy counsels | 1 |
| than the counsel | 1 |
| that executeth my counsel | 1 |
| that his counsel | 1 |
| the purpose | 1 |
| their purpose | 1 |
| them after the advice | 1 |
| they his counsel | 1 |
| to them after the counsel | 1 |
| unto counsel | 1 |
| unto my counsel | 1 |
| upon advisement | 1 |
| upon the counsel | 1 |
| with their counsel | 1 |
| ye the counsel | 1 |
Page 2 of 2. 85 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Read word by wordSet plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
Read word by wordThere is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
Read word by wordOil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the counsel of a friend is sweetness to the soul.
Read word by wordto those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
Read word by wordDevise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
Read word by wordThe Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
Read word by wordThis is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
Read word by word“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
Read word by wordThen the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
Read word by wordThe princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
Read word by wordThe land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.
Read word by wordO LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.
Read word by wordThis also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
Read word by wordWoe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
Read word by word“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
Read word by wordYou claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
Read word by wordWho has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
Read word by wordwho confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
Read word by wordI declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
Read word by wordI summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
Read word by wordYou are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.
Read word by wordThen some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
Read word by wordBut You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
Read word by wordAnd in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by wordthe One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Read word by wordConcerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
Read word by wordTherefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
Read word by wordRun! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.
Read word by wordTherefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
Read word by wordDisaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.
Read word by wordYes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.
Read word by wordBut they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
Read word by wordYes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’
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