What does βουλευτής (bouleutḗs) mean in the Bible?
βουλευτής (bouleutḗs): Member of official governing body; in NT specifically denotes Sanhedrin participant with judicial-legislative authority.
Greek · G1010
βουλευτής
Member of a council
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βουλευτήςG1010
Pronunciationbouleutḗs
What does βουλευτής (bouleutḗs) mean in the Bible?
βουλευτής (bouleutḗs): Member of official governing body; in NT specifically denotes Sanhedrin participant with judicial-legislative authority.
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How does the BSB render G1010?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include a Council member (1), Council member (1).
Where does βουλευτής (bouleutḗs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 15:43. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (1), Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ita Council member1×Luke 23:50
Council member1×Mark 15:43
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowMark 15:43
Aligned rows2
Books represented2
Mark1Luke1
Source forms
βουλευτής1xbouleutēsMark 15:43
βουλευτὴς1xbouleutēsLuke 23:50
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular2xMark 15:43, Luke 23:50
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Member of official governing body; in NT specifically denotes Sanhedrin participant with judicial-legislative authority.
Strong'sG1010
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms1 form2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
member of a council
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Mark 15:43Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
βουλευτής,bouleuthv
a member of a city council, of the Sanhedrin
Read verseLuke 23:50Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
βουλευτὴςbouleuthv
a member of a city council, of the Sanhedrin
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms2Case patternNominative (2)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · MasculineMark 15:43 · Luke 23:502×
Word Origins
βουλευτής is built from this root:
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