Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
counselor
Usage: σύμβουλος, -ου, ὁ (σύν, βουλή), [in LXX for יָעַץ and cogn. forms ;] a counsellor, adviser: Rom.11:34 (LXX).† (AS)
Symboulos means “counsellor” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4825 — merec (“Meres”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4825 σύμβουλος (sumboulos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sumboulos (soom'-bou-los) n. 1. a consultor, i.e. adviser [from G4862 and G1012] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include counsellor. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sumboulos (soom'-bou-los) n. 1. a consultor, i.e. adviser [from G4862 and G1012] KJV: counsellor Root(s): G4862, G1012
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counselor
Usage: σύμβουλος, -ου, ὁ (σύν, βουλή), [in LXX for יָעַץ and cogn. forms ;] a counsellor, adviser: Rom.11:34 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sumboulos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4825 (σύμβουλος) appears 26 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
16 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was counselor, and the Cherethite and the Pelethite, and the sons of David, were princes of the court.
And Absalom sent to Ahithophel the Theconite, the counselor of David, from his city, from Giloh, where he was sacrificing: and there was a strong conspiracy; and the people with Absalom were increasingly numerous.
And Jonathan, David’s uncle by the father’s side, was a counselor, a wise man: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and I weighed them the gold, and the silver, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his council, and the princes, and all Israel, had given.
But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young man to save his life.
And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4825.
and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was counselor, and the Cherethite and the Pelethite, and the sons of David, were princes of the court.
And Absalom sent to Ahithophel the Theconite, the counselor of David, from his city, from Giloh, where he was sacrificing: and there was a strong conspiracy; and the people with Absalom were increasingly numerous.
And Jonathan, David’s uncle by the father’s side, was a counselor, a wise man: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
Ahithophel was the king’s counselor: and Hushai the chief friend of the king.
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do evil.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord as the house of Ahab had done: for they were his counselors after the death of his father to his destruction.
And it came to pass when the prophet was speaking to him, that he said to him, Have I made thee king’s counselor? take heed lest thou be scourged: and the prophet forebore, and said, I know that God is disposed against thee to destroy thee, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
And I will establish thy judges as before, and thy counselors as at the beginning: and afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city Zion.
the captain of fifty also, and the honorable counselor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.
And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: as for the king’s wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will ye say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?
Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counselor, to instruct him?
Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counselors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
and I weighed them the gold, and the silver, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his council, and the princes, and all Israel, had given.
But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young man to save his life.
And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
O tyrant, counselor of lawbreaking, do not, hating us as thou dost, pity us more than we pity ourselves.
For just as in a council room, beholding in her own soul vehement counselors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children,
Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me, Knowing that she would be a counselor of good things, And a comfort in cares and grief.
Be in peace with many: Nevertheless have but one counselor of a thousand.
Every counselor extolleth counsel; But there is some that counseleth for himself.
Beware of a counselor, And know before what need he hath; For he will counsel for himself; Lest he cast the lot upon thee,
He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, And he is from everlasting to everlasting: Unto him may nothing be added, neither can he be diminished, And he hath no need of any counselor.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4825, grouped by book.
Symboulos (Strong's G4825) is a Greek word most simply glossed "counsellor". sumboulos (soom'-bou-los) n. 1. a consultor, i.e. adviser [from G4862 and G1012]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G4825 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4825 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as counsellor. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 16 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4825, with linked reader references where each row is available.