noun · masculine
sumboulos
Strong’sG4825
an adviser, counselor
stem sumboul-once in the New Testament1 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.
σύμβουλος, -ου, ὁ
(< σύν, βουλή), [in LXX forיוֺעֵץand cogn. forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4825 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
adviser, counsellor, in public or private affairs, NT+5th c.BC+: with genitive person, one's adviser, Refs 5th c.BC+, advise, with infinitive, Refs 5th c.BC+
II as a title,
II.1 at Athens, the θεσμοθέται were empowered to appoint σύμβουλοι (perhaps in a private capacity), Refs
II.2 at Sparta, a board of advisers sent with the general, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 officers at Thurii, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.4 = Latin legatus, Refs 2nd c.BC+; also used to explanation Latin con-sul, Refs 1st 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 | sumboulos1×σύμβουλος | sumboulois |
| object accusative | sumboulon | sumbouloin |
| direct address vocative | sumboulor | sumbouloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sumboulou | sumbouloiu |
| to, for dative | sumboulo | sumbouloi |
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
sumboulo 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sumboulos“counselor”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 11:34… gar gnōskata nouon kuriou? ē tinos sumboulos autou geneta?… Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”