sod · council; secret

What it means

sod (סוֹד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “council; secret”.

Council: a gathering of people who deliberate in confidence; also a secret plan, close friendship.

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. A close friendship, like YHWH's with those who fear him.
2. The circle of people who gather to talk or to make merry.
3. What someone entrusts to another to keep.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• intimate counsel ×8
• council ×6
• secret ×4
• circle ×1
• counsel ×1
• gathering ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×5
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 49:6

  Into their council let my soul not enter; to their assembly let my honor not be joined; for in their anger they killed men, and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.

• Job 15:8

  In the intimate counsel of Eloah do you listen, and reserve wisdom for yourself?

• Job 19:19

  All the men of my intimate counsel abhor me, and these whom I loved have turned against me.

• Job 29:4

  as I was in the days of my autumn, when the intimate counsel of Eloah was over my tent,

• Psalms 25:14

  The intimate counsel of YHWH is for those who fear him, and his covenant, to make it known to them.

• Psalms 55:14

  with whom together we made sweet intimate counsel; in the house of Elohim we walked with the throng.

• Psalms 64:2

  Hide me from the intimate counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of those who work wickedness,

• Psalms 83:3

  Against your people they craftily plot their intimate counsel, and they consult against your hidden ones.

• Psalms 89:7

  El greatly feared in the intimate council of the holy ones, and fearsome above all who surround him.

• Psalms 111:1

  Praise Yah. I will give thanks to YHWH with all my heart, in the council of the upright and in the community.

• Proverbs 3:32

  for the devious person is an abomination to YHWH, but with the upright is his intimate counsel.

• Proverbs 11:13

  One who goes about as a gossip reveals a secret, but one who is faithful in spirit covers a matter.

• Proverbs 15:22

  Plans are frustrated where there is no counsel, but with an abundance of counselors they stand.

• Proverbs 20:19

  One who reveals a secret goes about as a gossip, so with one who opens his lips do not mix.

• Proverbs 25:9

  Plead your case with your neighbor, and do not reveal another’s secret;

• Jeremiah 6:11

  But I am full of the fury of YHWH; I am weary of holding in. “Pour out on the child in the street, and on the gathering of young men together; for both husband with wife will be taken, the old with the one full of days.

• Jeremiah 15:17

  I did not sit in the circle of those who make merry, nor did I exult; because of your hand I sat alone, for with indignation you filled me.

• Jeremiah 23:18

  For who has stood in the council of YHWH and has seen and heard his word? Who has paid attention to his word and heard it?

• Jeremiah 23:22

  But if they had stood in my council, then they would have made my people hear my words, and they would have turned them back from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

• Ezekiel 13:9

  And my hand will be against the prophets who see emptiness and who divine lies; in the inner council of my people they will not be, and in the register of the house of Israel they will not be written, and into the soil of Israel they will not enter; and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.

• Amos 3:7

  For Adonai YHWH does not do a thing unless he has revealed his secret counsel to his servants the prophets.