βουλεύω: 1. to deliberate, take counsel, resolve, give counsel (Isa_23:8; (from Homer down)). 2. to be a councillor or senator, discharge the office of a senator: Xenophon, mem. 1, 1, 18; Plato, Gorgias, p. 473{e} ; (others). In the N. T. middle, (present βουλεύομαι; imperfect ἐβουλευομην; future βουλεύσομαι, Luk_14:31 L marginal reading T WH; 1 aorist ἐβουλευσαμην): 1. to deliberate with oneself consider: followed by εἰ, Luk_14:31, (Xenophon, mem. 3, 6, 8). 2. to take counsel, resolve: followed by an infinitive, Act_5:33 (R G T Tr marginal reading); (Rec.); ; τί, 2Co_1:17; followed by ἵνα, Joh_11:53 L T Tr text WH; (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 3). (Compare: παραβουλεύω (παραβούλομαι), συμβουλεύω.)

βουλεύω bouleuō 6x mid., to give counsel; to deliberate, Luk_14:31 ; Joh_12:10 ; Joh_11:53 ; to purpose, determine, Act_27:39 ; 2Co_1:17 (2x)

βουλεύω ( < βουλή ), [in LXX chiefly for H3289 ;] to take counsel, deliberate, resolve . In mid ., 1. to take counsel with oneself, consider: seq . εἰ , Luk_14:31 . 2. to determine with oneself, resolve: c . inf ., Act_5:33 ; Act_27:39 ; c . acc , 2Co_1:17 ; seq . ἵνα , Joh_11:53 ; Joh_12:10 ( cf. παρα -, συμ -).†

βουλεύω [page 115] For the verb in its general sense followed by an infinitive, as in Act_5:33 ΰ D, cf. P Tebt I. 58 .28 (B.C. 111) βεβουλεύμεθα ἐκσπάσαι τὸ ἐπιδεδομένον ὑπόμνη (μα ), we have determined to abstract the memorandum (Edd.), P Fay 116 .9 (A.D. 104) ἐπὶ βουλεύωμαι [εἰς π ]όλιν ἀπελθῖν χάριν [τον ] μικροῦ , as I am intending to go to the city on account of the little one (Edd.), P Leid W xi. 44 (ii/iii A.D.) βουλευομένον (= ου ) δὲ τὸ τρίτον τρίτον (om.) κακγᾶσε ( l. καγχᾶσαι ), volente vero tertium cachinnari (Ed.). The active (as in Isa_23:8 ) was perhaps obsolete : BGU IV. 1097 .8 has been emended see συμβουλεύω . The verb is absolute in the oldest dated Greek papyrus, P Eleph 1 .5 (a marriage contract, B.C. 311 0) (= Selections , p. 2) the couple are to live ὅπου ἂν δοκῆι ἄριστον εἶναι βουλευομένοις κοινῆι βουλῆι . It is used of a judge conferring with his assessors in Chrest. II. 372 iv. 19 (ii/A.D.) Εὐδα [ί ]μων βουλευσάμενος σὺν τοῖς παρο [ῦ ]σι εἶπεν κτλ . Note for the subst. P Fay 20 .2 (iii/iv A.D.) ὅθεν μοι παρέστη τὸ βούλευμα τοῦτο , wherefore I have formed this intention (Edd.).

βουλεύω [Etym: βουλή] "to take counsel, deliberate, concert measures", and in past tenses "to have considered" and so "to determine, resolve": absol., οἷος ἔην βουλευέμεν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι such as he was "in council" and in battle, Od. ; ἔς γε μίαν βουλεύσομεν [sc. βουλήν] "we shall agree" to one plan, id=Od. :—in Prose, this sense belongs chiefly to the Mid. c. acc. rei, "to deliberate on, plan, devise", Od. , Hdt. , attic:—Pass. with fut. mid., aor1 ἐβουλεύθην: perf. βεβούλευμαι:— "to be determined or resolved on", Aesch. , etc.; τὰ βεβουλευμένα ῀ βουλεύματα, Hdt. c. inf. "to resolve" to do, Od. , Hdt. "to give counsel", τὰ λῷστα β. Aesch. ; c. dat. pers. "to advise", Il. , Aesch. in polit. writers, "to be a member of Council", Hdt. ; esp. "of the Council of" 500 at Athens, Plat. , Xen. , etc. Mid., fut. -εύσομαι: aor1 ἐβουλευσάμην, epic βουλ or in pass. form ἐβουλεύθην: perf. βεβούλευμαι: absol. "to take counsel with oneself, deliberate", Hdt. , attic c. acc. rei, "to determine with oneself, resolve on", Il. , Hdt. c. inf. "to resolve" to do, id=Hdt. , Plat. ; β. ὅπως . . , Xen.

βουλεύω (βουλή), [in LXX chiefly for יעץ ;] to take counsel, deliberate, resolve. In mid., __1. to take counsel with oneself, consider: before εἰ, Luk.14:31. __2. to determine with oneself, resolve: with inf., Act.5:33 27:39; with accusative, 2Co.1:17; before ἵνα, Jhn.11:53 12:10 (cf. παρα-, συμ-). † (AS)