Counsel
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Counsel

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Counsel (192 Occurrences)
... in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates
united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. ...
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Counselled (26 Occurrences)
... (pp) of Counsel. ... (DBY JPS YLT). 2 Samuel 17:7 And Hushai saith unto Absalom, 'Not
good 'is' the counsel that Ahithophel hath counselled at this time.' (YLT). ...
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Ahith'ophel (15 Occurrences)
... 15:31 And one told David, saying: 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.'
And David said: 'O LORD, I pray Thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel ...
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Advise (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To give advice to; to offer an opinion,
as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. ...
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Consulted (33 Occurrences)
... Matthew 28:12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel,
they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers, (See NAS). ...
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Counseled (12 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Counsel. Multi-Version Concordance
Counseled (12 Occurrences). Acts 15:37 And Barnabas counseled ...
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Ahithophel (17 Occurrences)
... David sent his old friend Hushai back to Absalom, in order that he might
counteract the counsel of Ahithophel (2 Samuel 15:31-37). ...
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Advice (52 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to
be followed; counsel. 2. (n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge. ...
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Forsook (37 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood ...
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Plans (55 Occurrences)
... Matthew 22:15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him
in his talk. ... Psalms 33:10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. ...
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Rehobo'am (42 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before
Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying: 'What counsel give ye me to ...
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Volition
... Boulema is properly counsel or purpose. While it is possible to oppose the
will of God, His counsel or purpose cannot be frustrated ...
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Consult (27 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To seek the opinion or advice of another;
to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer. ...
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Lifetime (28 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon
his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to ...
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Lads (20 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:8 And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him,
and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing ...
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Forsaketh (17 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:8 And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him,
and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing ...
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Frustrate (7 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the
Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to ...
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Thwart (5 Occurrences)
... As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant;
then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.' (See NAS). ...
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Defeat (16 Occurrences)
... As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant;
then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY ...
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Counsellors (21 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS ASV DBY). Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the
multitude of counsellors there is safety. (KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT). ...
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Advisement (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Counsel; advice; information. 2. (n.) Consideration;
deliberation; consultation. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Naught (40 Occurrences)
... (WBS). Acts 5:38 And now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone:
for if this counsel or this work is from men, it will come to naught: (WBS). ...
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Devised (35 Occurrences)
... Matthew 28:12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel,
they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers, (See NIV). ...
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Devices (43 Occurrences)
... (DBY RSV). Psalms 33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought:
he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. (KJV WBS). ...
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Ab'salom (85 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 15:31 Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators
with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into ...
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Plan (58 Occurrences)
... Matthew 28:12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel,
they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers, (See NIV). ...
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Counselling (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (vb. n.) of Counsel. Multi-Version Concordance
Counselling (9 Occurrences). Luke 22:42 saying, 'Father, if ...
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Void (64 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is
no understanding in them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV). ...
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Will (64996 Occurrences)
... Boulema is properly counsel or purpose. While it is possible to oppose the
will of God, His counsel or purpose cannot be frustrated ...
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Planned (34 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Acts 27:42 The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners,
so that none of them would swim out and escape. (See NIV). ...
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Determined (89 Occurrences)
... Acts 2:23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of
God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed; (WEB NAS ...
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Willed (13 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom saith -- and all the men of Israel -- 'Better 'is' the
counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Jehovah ...
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Read (681 Occurrences)
... 2. (imp. & pp) of Read. 3. (vt) To advise; to counsel. 4. (vt) To interpret; to
explain; as, to read a riddle. ... 10. (vi) To give advice or counsel. 11. ...
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Disaster (131 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the
Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to ...
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Decayed (7 Occurrences)
... Acts 13:36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God,
fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. (See NIV). ...
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Plotted (21 Occurrences)
... destroy him. (See NIV). Matthew 22:15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel
how they might entrap him in his talk. (See NAS). Matthew ...
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Brutish (12 Occurrences)
... The word is occasionally used in the sense of thoughtless ignorance. Brutish counsel
is counsel that is foolish, unreasonable (Isaiah 19:11). ...
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Counselors (21 Occurrences)
... (WBS NAS). Proverbs 15:22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a
multitude of counselors they are established. (WEB WBS NAS). ...
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Archite (7 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the
Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to ...
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Arkite (7 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the
Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to ...
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Ahithophel's (5 Occurrences)
... 15:31 And one told David, saying: 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.'
And David said: 'O LORD, I pray Thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel ...
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Schemes (25 Occurrences)
... (WEB NIV). Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the
cunning is carried headlong. ... His own counsel shall cast him down. ...
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Purposed (44 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a dismay unto Egypt: every one that
thinketh of it shall be afraid for himself, because of the counsel of Jehovah ...
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Purposes (67 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Psalms 33:10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. ... Proverbs
20:18 Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war. ...
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Rejected (96 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers
rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves. ...
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Intent (37 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the
Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to ...
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Rebel (35 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 18:20 You say (but they are but vain words),'There is counsel and strength
for war.' Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? ...
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Ordained (70 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the
Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to ...
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Discernment (43 Occurrences)
... and of evil. (YLT). Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel.
There is no understanding in them. (See NIV). 1 Samuel ...
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Rebelled (61 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 18:20 You say (but they are but vain words),'There is counsel and strength
for war.' Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? ...
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Nought (104 Occurrences)
... 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: (KJV). ...
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Grown (77 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood ...
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Inquired (74 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 16:23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if
a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both ...
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Regarded (52 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 16:23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if
a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both ...
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Rehoboam (42 Occurrences)
... Against the advice of men of riper judgment, who assured him that he might win the
people by becoming their servant, he chose the counsel of the younger men ...
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Waited (72 Occurrences)
... Luke 23:51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was
of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of ...
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Lighter (10 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:9 He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer
to this people, who have spoken to me, saying,'Make the yoke that your ...
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Lightly (31 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 1:17 This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or
the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may ...
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Whips (6 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying,
"My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. ...
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Immutability (1 Occurrence)
... IMMUTABILITY; IMMUTABLE. i-mu-ta-bil'-i-ti, i-mu'-ta-b'-l (ametathetos): Occurs
in Hebrews 6:17, 18 of the unchangeableness of the Divine counsel. ...
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Inquireth (7 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel which he counselled in those days
'is' as 'when' one inquireth at the word of God; so 'is' all the counsel of ...
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Inquires (3 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 16:23 Now the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days,
was as if a man inquired of the word of God; so was all the counsel of ...
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Frustrated (7 Occurrences)
... Nehemiah 4:15 And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been
known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of ...
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Forsaking (29 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). 1 Kings 12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook
the counsel of the old men which they had given him; (See RSV). ...
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Teman (12 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 49:7 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman?
is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? ...
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Thummim (6 Occurrences)
... All we certainly know is that they were a certain divinely-given means by which
God imparted, through the high priest, direction and counsel to Israel when ...
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Roughly (8 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:13 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of
the old men which they had given him, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). ...
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Reproof (29 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). Proverbs 1:25 but you have ignored all my
counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). ...
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Revealing (7 Occurrences)
... See RSV). Proverbs 11:13 A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the
faithful of spirit is covering the matter. (YLT). Proverbs ...
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Revolted (9 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). 2 Kings 18:20 Thou sayest but it is
a word of the lips There is counsel and strength for war. ...
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Rebellest (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Rebellest (2 Occurrences). 2 Kings 18:20 Thou sayest,
(but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. ...
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Rejecting (9 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). 1 Kings 12:13 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the
counsel of the old men which they had given him, (See NIV). ...
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Elders (203 Occurrences)
... Matthew 27:1 Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of
the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY ...
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Determinate (1 Occurrence)
... DETERMINATE. de-tur'-mi-nat (horismenos, "determined," "fixed"): Only in
Acts 2:23, "by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of. ...
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Disciplined (18 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying,
"My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. ...
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Dragged (19 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, That He hath counselled
concerning Edom, And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the ...
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Absalom (93 Occurrences)
... Hushai, the priests and a few people less conspicuous performed their part well,
for the counsel of Ahithophel, who advised immediate action and advance upon ...
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Plots (20 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah;
for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor ...
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Pelatiah (5 Occurrences)
... (3.) Nehemiah 10:22. (4.) One of the twenty-five princes of the people against whom
Ezekiel prophesied on account of their wicked counsel (Ezek. 11:1-13). Int. ...
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