Counsellor

Counsellor

(usually יוֹעֵוֹ, yoets', σύμβουλος ), an adviser upon any matter ( Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 15:22; 2 Chronicles 25:16; Ezra 4:5, etc.; Romans 11:34), especially the king's state counselor ( 2 Samuel 15:12; Ezra 7:28; 1 Chronicles 27:33, etc.); hence one of the chief men of a government ( Job 3:14; Job 12:17; Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 3:3, ebc.), and once of the Messiah ( Isaiah 9:5; Sept. σύμβουλος, Vulg. consiliarius). The Chaldee equivalent term is יָעֵט ( yaet', Ezra 7:14-15). Other Chaldee terms thus rendered are הִדָּבְרַין ( haddaberin'), ministers of state or viziers ( Daniel 3:24; Daniel 3:27; Daniel 4:36; Daniel 6:7), and דְּתָבָר ( dethabar', one skilled in law), a judge ( Daniel 3:2-3). In the Apocrypha, σύμβουλος, in the ordinary sense of adviser, is thus rendered (Wisdom of Solomon 8:9; Sirach 6:6; Sirach 37:7-8; Sirach 42:21); also συμβουλευτής ( 1 Esdras 8:11). In Mark 15:43; Luke 23:50, the Greek term βουλευτής, which is thus translated, probably designates a member of the Jewish Sanhedrim (q.v.) (See Council).