Quick Definition
an adviser, counselor
Strong's Definition
a consultor, i.e. adviser
Derivation: from G4862 (σύν) and G1012 (βουλή);
KJV Usage: counsellor
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σύμβουλος, συμβούλου, ὁ (σύν and βουλή), an adviser, counsellor: Rom_11:34 from Isa_40:13. (Tragg. (Herodotus), Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σύμβουλος symboulos 1x
a counsellor; advisor, one who shares one s counsel, Rom_11:34
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σύμβουλος , -ου , ὁ
( < σύν , βουλή ),
[in LXX for H3289 and cogn . forms;]
a counsellor, adviser: Rom_11:34 ( LXX ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σύμβουλος [page 597]
counsellor, adviser ( Rom_11:34 LXX) : P Petr II. 13 (6) .11 (B.C. 258 253) γέγραφα δέ σοι . . . [σύμ ]βουλόν σε εἰς τὸ πρᾶγμα λαβεῖν , where the writer asks advice regarding a building contract. In a v/A.D. school-book PSI I. 19 .8 ff. the questions are put Τίς στρατηγός ; Ἕκτωρ . Τίνες σύμβουλοι ; Πολυδάμας καὶ Ἀ [γ ]ήνωρ , and in a sepulchral inscr. at Alexandria Preisigke 1990 (A.D. 319) a certain. Antoninus is addressed συνκοπιάτα σύνβουλε ἀγαθέ .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σύμβουλος σύμ-βουλος, ὁ, [Etym: βουλή] "an adviser, counsellor", Hdt. , Soph. , etc.; as fem., Xen. :—c. gen. pers. one's "adviser", Aesch. , etc.; also, ς. τινι Ar. , etc.:—but c. gen. rei, ς. λόγου τοῦδέ μοι γένεσθε be my "counsellors in" this matter, Aesch. ; also, περί or ὑπέρ τινος id=Aesch. , Isocr. :— ξύμβουλός εἰμι ῀ συμβουλεύω, "to advise", c. inf., Aesch.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σύμβουλος, -ου, ὁ
(σύν, βουλή), [in LXX for יָעַץ and cogn. forms ;]
a counsellor, adviser: Rom.11:34 (LXX).†
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