Strong G1011βουλεύω
to plan
- Transliteration
- bouleuō
- Pronunciation
- bool-yoo'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G1012; to advise that is (reflexively) deliberate or (by implication) resolve: - consult take counsel determine be minded purpose.
Detailed definition
βουλεύω
(βουλή), [in LXX chiefly for יעץ;]
to take counsel, deliberate, resolve. In mid.,
1. to take counsel with oneself, consider: before εἰ, Luk.14:31.
2. to determine with oneself, resolve: with inf., Act.5:33 27:39; with accusative, 2Co.1:17; before ἵνα, Jhn.11:53 12:10 (cf. παρα-, συμ-).
† (AS)
(βουλή), [in LXX chiefly for יעץ;]
to take counsel, deliberate, resolve. In mid.,
1. to take counsel with oneself, consider: before εἰ, Luk.14:31.
2. to determine with oneself, resolve: with inf., Act.5:33 27:39; with accusative, 2Co.1:17; before ἵνα, Jhn.11:53 12:10 (cf. παρα-, συμ-).
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1011 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- mind2
- be1
- consult1
- consulteth1
- determine1
- purpose1
- take1
First verses
- Luke 14:31Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
- John 12:10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
- Acts 5:33When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
- Acts 15:37And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
- Acts 27:39And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
- 2 Corinthians 1:17When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
βουλ-εύω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.379, etc.)], aorist ἐβούλευσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.23, etc.)], Epic dialect βούλ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.464)]: perfect βεβούλευκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 701)]:—middle and passive, see below: (βουλή):—take counsel, deliberate, in past tenses, determine or resolve after deliberation:
1 absolutely, ὣς βουλεύσαντε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.531)]; βουλευέμεν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι in council or in battle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.491; β. ὅπως ὄχ᾽ ἄριστα γένοιτο 9.420, compare 11.229; δυσμενέεσσι φόνου πέρι β. 16.234)]; ἔς γε μίαν βουλεύσομεν (i.e. βουλήν) we shall agree to one plan, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.379; θυμῷ β. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.58; β. περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.28, 5.116)]: in Prose, chiefly middle in this sense, see below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
2 with accusative of things, deliberate on, plan, devise, β. βουλάς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.652, +others)]; οὐ.. τοῦτον μὲν ἐβούλευσας νόον αὐτ; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.23; ὁδόν 1.444; φύξιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.311, 398; κέρδεα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.217; ψεύδεα 14.296: with _dative_ _person_, τῷ γάρ ῥα θεοὶ βούλευσαν ὄλεθρον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.464, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.110; θάνατόν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 872a; β. πῆμά τινι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.179, etc.; κέλευθον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 758; ποινάς [prev. author] “Ag.” 1223; νεώτερα β. περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.210)]:—passive (with future middle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 198))], aorist ἐβουλεύθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.157, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 442b:)]perfect βεβούλευμαι (usually in middle sense, see infr. B):—to be determined or planned, ψῆφος κατ᾽ αὐτῶν βουλεύσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus [same place]; βεβούλευται τάδε [prev. author] “Pr.” 998, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10)].; τὰ βεβουλευμένα, ={βουλεύματα}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.128; τὰ βουλευόμενα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.2; πῶς σφῷν βεβούλευται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 274a.)]
3 with infinitive, take counsel, resolve to do, τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ βούλευσα.. οὐτάμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.299, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.73, 6.52, 61, etc.)]:— passive, τοῖσι ἐβεβούλευτο τὸ παιδίον προσουδίσαι [Refs ([prev. author] 5.92.γ.)]
II give counsel, τὰ λῷστα β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 206; β. δυνατός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 694b)]: with dative person, advise, ἵνα σφίσι βουλεύησθα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.99, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 697.)]
III sit in council, of the Spartan γέροντες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.57)]; to be a member of a βουλή, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1282a30)]; especially of the Council of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (500 at Athens, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.18, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 62.3; ἡ βουλὴ ἡ βουλεύουσα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.19)]; βουλὴν β. to be a member of the β., [Refs ([prev. work]20)]; βουλεύειν λαχών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473e.)]
B middle, future -εύσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 846, “Ch.” 718, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.43, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 174d)]: aorist ἐβουλευσάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 537, etc.)]; Epic dialect βουλ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.114; ἐβουλεύθην 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 15.7)]: perfect βεβούλευμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 385, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.69, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 248, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 176c (also in _passive_ sense, see above):)] —more frequently in _Attic dialect_ Prose than active,
B.1 absolutely, take counsel with oneself, deliberate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10.δ, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1112b11, 20; παραχρῆμα οὐδὲ -σάμενος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.13; ἅμα τινί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.101; περὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος τῶν οἰκείων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.44, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 231a; περί τι [prev. author] “R.” 604c)]; ὑπέρ τινος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 428d; πρὸς τὴν γεγενημένην ξυμφοράν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.47: with _accusative_ _cognate_, β. βούλευμα 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.29; βουλήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 298b, etc.; ἴσον τι ἢ δίκαιον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.44)]:—also like active, take counsel, πρός τινας [LXX (LXX.4Ki.6.8.)]
B.2 act as member of council, and so originate measures, β. καὶ κρίνειν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1281b31; τὸ βουλευόμενον [prev. work] 1291a28.)]
B.3 with accusative of things, determine with oneself, resolve on, κακὴν ἀπάτην βουλεύσατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.114)] (middle here only in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus); ἀλλοῖόν τι περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.40, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 32c.)]
B.4 with infinitive, resolve to do, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 176c.)]
B.5 rarely followed by Relat., β. ὅ τι ποιήσεις [Refs ([prev. passage])]; β. ὅπως.. with subjunctive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.13)]; β. πῶς τις, with future, [NT+2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 3.4.40; πῶς καὶ τί πρακτέον εἴη 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.33.3; ἵνα NT.John.12.10.)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.379, etc.)], aorist ἐβούλευσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.23, etc.)], Epic dialect βούλ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.464)]: perfect βεβούλευκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 701)]:—middle and passive, see below: (βουλή):—take counsel, deliberate, in past tenses, determine or resolve after deliberation:
1 absolutely, ὣς βουλεύσαντε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.531)]; βουλευέμεν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι in council or in battle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.491; β. ὅπως ὄχ᾽ ἄριστα γένοιτο 9.420, compare 11.229; δυσμενέεσσι φόνου πέρι β. 16.234)]; ἔς γε μίαν βουλεύσομεν (i.e. βουλήν) we shall agree to one plan, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.379; θυμῷ β. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.58; β. περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.28, 5.116)]: in Prose, chiefly middle in this sense, see below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
2 with accusative of things, deliberate on, plan, devise, β. βουλάς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.652, +others)]; οὐ.. τοῦτον μὲν ἐβούλευσας νόον αὐτ; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.23; ὁδόν 1.444; φύξιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.311, 398; κέρδεα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.217; ψεύδεα 14.296: with _dative_ _person_, τῷ γάρ ῥα θεοὶ βούλευσαν ὄλεθρον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.464, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.110; θάνατόν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 872a; β. πῆμά τινι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.179, etc.; κέλευθον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 758; ποινάς [prev. author] “Ag.” 1223; νεώτερα β. περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.210)]:—passive (with future middle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 198))], aorist ἐβουλεύθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.157, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 442b:)]perfect βεβούλευμαι (usually in middle sense, see infr. B):—to be determined or planned, ψῆφος κατ᾽ αὐτῶν βουλεύσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus [same place]; βεβούλευται τάδε [prev. author] “Pr.” 998, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10)].; τὰ βεβουλευμένα, ={βουλεύματα}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.128; τὰ βουλευόμενα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.2; πῶς σφῷν βεβούλευται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 274a.)]
3 with infinitive, take counsel, resolve to do, τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ βούλευσα.. οὐτάμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.299, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.73, 6.52, 61, etc.)]:— passive, τοῖσι ἐβεβούλευτο τὸ παιδίον προσουδίσαι [Refs ([prev. author] 5.92.γ.)]
II give counsel, τὰ λῷστα β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 206; β. δυνατός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 694b)]: with dative person, advise, ἵνα σφίσι βουλεύησθα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.99, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 697.)]
III sit in council, of the Spartan γέροντες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.57)]; to be a member of a βουλή, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1282a30)]; especially of the Council of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (500 at Athens, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.18, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 62.3; ἡ βουλὴ ἡ βουλεύουσα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.19)]; βουλὴν β. to be a member of the β., [Refs ([prev. work]20)]; βουλεύειν λαχών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473e.)]
B middle, future -εύσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 846, “Ch.” 718, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.43, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 174d)]: aorist ἐβουλευσάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 537, etc.)]; Epic dialect βουλ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.114; ἐβουλεύθην 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 15.7)]: perfect βεβούλευμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 385, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.69, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 248, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 176c (also in _passive_ sense, see above):)] —more frequently in _Attic dialect_ Prose than active,
B.1 absolutely, take counsel with oneself, deliberate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10.δ, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1112b11, 20; παραχρῆμα οὐδὲ -σάμενος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.13; ἅμα τινί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.101; περὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος τῶν οἰκείων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.44, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 231a; περί τι [prev. author] “R.” 604c)]; ὑπέρ τινος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 428d; πρὸς τὴν γεγενημένην ξυμφοράν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.47: with _accusative_ _cognate_, β. βούλευμα 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.29; βουλήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 298b, etc.; ἴσον τι ἢ δίκαιον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.44)]:—also like active, take counsel, πρός τινας [LXX (LXX.4Ki.6.8.)]
B.2 act as member of council, and so originate measures, β. καὶ κρίνειν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1281b31; τὸ βουλευόμενον [prev. work] 1291a28.)]
B.3 with accusative of things, determine with oneself, resolve on, κακὴν ἀπάτην βουλεύσατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.114)] (middle here only in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus); ἀλλοῖόν τι περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.40, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 32c.)]
B.4 with infinitive, resolve to do, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 176c.)]
B.5 rarely followed by Relat., β. ὅ τι ποιήσεις [Refs ([prev. passage])]; β. ὅπως.. with subjunctive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.13)]; β. πῶς τις, with future, [NT+2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 3.4.40; πῶς καὶ τί πρακτέον εἴη 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.33.3; ἵνα NT.John.12.10.)]