2001 Translation

BOULĒN, boulēn

Sounds Like: BOO-layn

Translations: counsel, a counsel, plan, a plan, purpose, a purpose, will, a will

From the root: ΒΟΥΛΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a counsel, plan, or purpose, often implying a deliberate decision or intention. It can be used to describe human plans or, frequently in the New Testament, the divine will or purpose of God. It is used in sentences to indicate the object of an action, such as 'to know the counsel' or 'to understand the plan'.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1012 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:42, 1:255, 1:270

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 6:7, 19:3

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 26:6, 61:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• 2 Esdras — 14:9
• Esther — 4:17q, 9:31
• Judith — 2:4
• Tobit — 4:19
• 1 Maccabees — 2:31
• Psalms — 13:6, 19:5, 105:13, 106:11
• Proverbs — 3:21, 8:12, 22:20
• Job — 5:13, 38:2
• Wisdom — 6:4, 9:13, 9:17
• Sirach — 37:7, 37:10, 37:13, 38:33, 39:7
• Isaiah — 3:9, 7:5, 8:10, 10:25, 19:3, 25:1, 28:8, 29:15, 30:1, 44:25, 44:26
• Jeremiah — 18:23, 19:7, 30:14, 30:25
• Acts of the Apostles — 20:27, 27:12
• Ephesians — 1:11
• Epistle of Barnabas — 6:7, 19:3, 19:4

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 21:338
• Book 2 — 2:18
• Book 9 — 4:76
• Book 11 — 4:117
• Book 13 — 5:164, 9:260
• Book 14 — 10:252, 10:259, 13:361, 14:384
• Book 15 — 4:98
• Book 17 — 9:243
• Book 18 — 1:1
• Book 19 — 1:3, 2:164, 4:246, 4:248, 4:249, 4:265, 4:266

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 15:11
• Book Two — 11:5, 15:23, 21:57
• Book Four — 3:94
• Book Six — 4:19

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 46:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:5
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 17:2, 23:3, 41:1, 43:1, 48:3, 75:4, 76:7, 79:3, 84:4, 87:2, 95:2, 103:3, 123:4, 127:4, 130:4, 133:2, 136:2, 136:3, 137:3, 139:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 12:64, 34:169, 54:279, 55:284, 58:300, 61:313

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 8:9

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 49:6
• Deuteronomy — 32:28
• Judges — 19:30, 20:7
• 2 Samuel — 15:31, 15:34, 16:20, 17:14
• 1 Kings — 12:8, 12:13, 12:14, 12:24
• 2 Chronicles — 10:8, 10:13, 10:14
• Ezra (Alpha) — 7:15
• Ezra (Beta) — 4:5
• Nehemiah — 4:15
• Esther — 4:17, 9:30
• Judith — 2:4
• Tobit — 4:19, 4:19
• 3 Maccabees — 5:8, 7:17
• Psalms — 13:6, 19:5, 20:12, 105:13, 106:11
• Odes — 2:28
• Proverbs — 3:21, 8:12, 22:20
• Job — 5:13, 38:2, 42:3
• Wisdom — 6:4, 9:13, 9:17
• Sirach — 25:4, 37:7, 37:10, 37:13, 39:7
• Isaiah — 3:9, 7:5, 8:10, 10:25, 19:3, 19:17, 25:1, 28:8, 29:15, 30:1, 31:6, 44:25, 44:26
• Jeremiah — 18:23, 19:7, 27:45, 29:21, 30:8
• Ezekiel — 11:2, 27:9
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:14
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:14, 6:4
• Micah — 4:12

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 7:30
• Acts — 20:27, 27:12
• Ephesians — 1:11

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 2:6

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΟΥΛΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΒΟΥΛΗΤΟΝ — unadvised, unwilling, without counsel, not willed, not desired, not purposed
• ΒΟΥΗΝ — will, purpose, counsel, plan
• ΒΟΥΛΑ — counsels, plans, purposes, decisions
• ΒΟΥΛΑΙ — counsels, plans, purposes, advice, a counsel, a plan, a purpose, an advice
• ΒΟΥΛΑΙΣ — (to) counsels, (to) plans, (to) purposes, (to) advice
• ΒΟΥΛΑΣ — counsels, plans, purposes, wills
• ΒΟΥΛΕ — counsel, a counsel, purpose, a purpose, plan, a plan, will, a will, decision, a decision
• ΒΟΥΛΗ — counsel, a counsel, plan, a plan, purpose, a purpose, will, a will, decision, a decision
• ΒΟΥΛΗΣ — of counsel, of purpose, of will, of plan, of advice, of deliberation
• ΒΟΥΛΙ — counsel, a counsel, plan, a plan, purpose, a purpose, will, a will, advice, an advice, decision, a decision
• ΒΟΥΛ‾Η‾ — counsel, plan, purpose, a counsel, a plan, a purpose

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