Counsellor.

Various words are so translated:

1. dethabar. Daniel 3:2, Daniel 1:3.

2. haddabrin. Daniel 3:24, Daniel 1:3; Daniel 4:36; Daniel 6:7.

3. yeat. Ezra 7:14, Ezra 1:7. These three words are Chaldee, and refer to various heathen officials as counsellors of state.

4. yaats, the counsellors in Israel, such as Jonathan, and Ahithophel, David's counsellors, 1 Chronicles 27:32, 1 Chronicles 1:27. In Isaiah 9:6 the same word is applied to the Lord Jesus: "His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

5. bouleuthj, a member of the Sanhedrim. Mark 15:43; Luke 23:50.

6. sumbouloj, 'a joint counsellor.' Romans 11:34.


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