moetsa · plan, counsel

What it means

moetsa (מוֹעֵצָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plan, counsel”.

What someone intends to do after thinking it over.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What someone intends to do.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• counsels ×4
• designs ×2
• own plans ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1

• Psalms 5:10

  Declare them guilty, Elohim; let them fall by their designs. In the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

• Psalms 81:12

  So I let him go in the stubbornness of their heart; they will walk in their own plans.

• Proverbs 1:31

  So they will eat of the fruit of their way, and with their own designs they will be filled.

• Proverbs 22:20

  Have I not written to you thirty sayings of counsels and knowledge,

• Jeremiah 7:24

  But they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they went backward and not forward.

• Hosea 11:6

  And the sword will whirl in his cities, and it will finish off his bars, and devour them because of their counsels.

• Micah 6:16

  And the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the work of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I may make you a horror, and her inhabitants a hissing; and the reproach of my people you will bear.”