יָעַץyâʻats/yaw-ats'/
HebrewH328979 occurrences (KJV)
to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve
KJV renders it: advertise, take advise, advise (well), consult, (give, take) counsel(-lor), determine, devise, guide, purpose.
Where it appears(showing the first 73 of 79)
- Exod 18:19Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
- Num 24:14Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
- 2 Sam 15:12Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
- 2 Sam 16:23The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. So was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
- 2 Sam 17:7Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”
- 2 Sam 17:11But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
- 2 Sam 17:15Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.
- 2 Sam 17:21After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
- 1 Kgs 1:12Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.
- 1 Kgs 12:6King 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 answer these people?”
- 1 Kgs 12:8But he abandoned 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 before him.
- 1 Kgs 12:9He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”
- 1 Kgs 12:13The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
- 1 Kgs 12:28So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- 2 Kgs 6:8Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
- 1 Chr 13:1David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
- 1 Chr 26:14The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
- 1 Chr 27:32Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
- 1 Chr 27:33Ahithophel was the king’s counselor: and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
- 2 Chr 10:6King 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 about how to answer these people?”
- 2 Chr 10:8But he abandoned 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 before him.
- 2 Chr 10:9He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”
- 2 Chr 20:21When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”
- 2 Chr 22:3He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
- 2 Chr 22:4He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
- 2 Chr 25:16As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”
- 2 Chr 25:17Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”
- 2 Chr 30:2For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
- 2 Chr 30:23The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.
- 2 Chr 32:3he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.
- Ezra 4:5They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 7:28and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.
- Ezra 8:25and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.
- Neh 6:7You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.”
- Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
- Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
- Job 26:3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
- Ps 16:7I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
- Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Ps 62:4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
- Ps 71:10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
- Ps 83:3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
- Ps 83:5For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
- Prov 11:14Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
- Prov 12:20Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
- Prov 13:10Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.
- Prov 15:22Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
- Prov 24:6for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.
- Isa 1:26I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’
- Isa 3:3the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
- Isa 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
- Isa 9:6For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isa 14:24Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
- Isa 14:26This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
- Isa 14:27For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
- Isa 19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
- Isa 19:12Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.
- Isa 19:17The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.
- Isa 23:8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
- Isa 23:9Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
- Isa 32:7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
- Isa 32:8But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
- Isa 40:14Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
- Isa 41:28When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
- Isa 45:21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
- Jer 38:15Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
- Jer 49:20Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
- Jer 50:45Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
- Ezek 11:2He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
- Mic 4:9Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?
- Mic 6:5My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”
- Nah 1:11There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
- Hab 2:10You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.