Strong's #4156: mow`etsah (pronounced mo-ay-tsaw')

from 3289; a purpose:--counsel, device.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mô‛êtsâh

1) counsel, plan, principal, device

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H3289

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Psalms 5:10: "Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions;"
Psalms 81:12: "unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels."
Proverbs 1:31: "of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."
Proverbs 22:20: "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,"
Jeremiah 7:24: "their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went"
Hosea 11:6: "and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels."
Micah 6:16: "of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants"