noun · masculine
bouleutos
Strong’sG1010
a member of a city council, of the Sanhedrin
stem bouleut-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
βουλευτής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< βουλεύω), [in LXX: Jb 3:14 12:17 (יעץ)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1010 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbool-yoo-tace'
an adviser, i.e. (specially) a councillor or member of the Jewish Sanhedrin
Fromfrom G1011;
King Jamescounsellor.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
councillor, senator, Refs 8th c.BC+; at Athens, one of theRefs 5th c.BC+; at Rome, senator, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 plotter, contriver, θανάτου, πληγῆς, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | bouleutos2×βουλευτής | bouleutois |
| object accusative | bouleuton | bouleutoin |
| direct address vocative | bouleutor | bouleutoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | bouleutou | bouleutoiu |
| to, for dative | bouleuto | bouleutoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
bouleuto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
bouleutos“member of the council”subjectnominative singular2×
Mark 15:43“member of the council”ercharantos Iōsēf tos apo Harimathaiau euschēmōnos bouleutos, hos kai autos ate prosdechorōntos tan …Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of …
Luke 23:50“member of the council”Kai idou andros onome Iōsēf bouleutos huparcharōntos, andros agathos kai dikaiosNow there was a Council member named Joseph, a good and righteous man,