συμβούλιον
counsel
also: which is given, taken, entered upon fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 7 times (88%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4824 appears — 8 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 12:14 συμβούλιον n acc sg neut But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
- Matthew 22:15 συμβούλιον n acc sg neut Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
- Matthew 27:1 συμβούλιον n acc sg neut Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
- Matthew 27:7 συμβούλιον n acc sg neut They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers in.
- Matthew 28:12 συμβούλιόν n acc sg neut When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 3:6 συμβούλιον n acc sg neut The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
- Mark 15:1 συμβούλιον n acc sg neut Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun συμβουλιον centers on the idea of “counsel.” Matthew dominates its distribution — 5 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 12:14, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “counsel” it spans “which is given”, “taken”, and “entered upon”. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4824 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 88%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Counsel 5×, Council 2×
- American Standard Version: Counsel 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Conspired 1×, Council 1×, Plan 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Counsel 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4824 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4824 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4824 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4824 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- counsel, which is given, taken, entered upon
- an assembly of counsellors or persons in consultation (the governors and procurators of provinces had a board of…
Word origin
Derived from συμβουλος (sýmboulos) (G4825) — counselor.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G4825 ; advisement ; specifically a deliberative body that is the provincial assessors or lay court : - consultation counsel council.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4824 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συμβούλιον symboúlion | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 12:14 | 6 |
| συμβουλίου symboulíou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Acts 25:12 | 1 |
| συμβούλιόν symboúlión | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 28:12 | 1 |
