Occurrences
Boulḗ occurs 12 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (2), Acts (7), 1 Corinthians (1), Ephesians (1), Hebrews (1)
- Luke 7:30 — But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel (βουλὴν) of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
- Luke 23:51 — (The same had not consented to the counsel (βουλῆ) and deed of them;) he was of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
- Acts 2:23 — Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel (βουλῆ) and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
- Acts 4:28 — For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel (βουλῆ) determined before to be done.
- Acts 5:38 — And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel (βουλῆ) or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
- Acts 13:36 — For David, after he had served his own generation by the will (βουλῆ) of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
- Acts 20:27 — For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel (βουλὴν) of God.
- Acts 27:12 — And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised (βουλὴν) to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
- Acts 27:42 — And the soldiers’ counsel (βουλῆ) was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5 — Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels (βουλὰς) of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- Ephesians 1:11 — In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel (βουλὴν) of his own will:
- Hebrews 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel (βουλῆς), confirmed it by an oath: