advice, counsel, esp. with purposes of evil, Mat 12:14, Mar 3:6.
II a council of advisors or assessors, PTeb. 286.15 (ii A.D.), Plu. Luc. 26; esp. freq. of the consilium of a Roman magistrate, governor, etc., SIG 684.11 (Dyme, ii B.C.), al., Supp.Epigr. 2.265 (Delph., ii B.C.), Act 25:12, Plu. Rom. 14, 2.196e, etc.
counsel, consultation, mutual consultation, Mat 12:14; Mat 22:15; Mat 27:1; Mat 27:7; Mat 28:12; Mar 3:6; Act 27:1; Act 27:7; Act 28:12; a council of counsellors, Act 25:12
G4824 —
1. counsel, which is given, taken, entered upon (PIut. Romul. 14):
2. a council, i. e. an assembly of counsellors or persons in consultation (Plutarch, Luc. 26): Act 25:12 (the governors and procurator's of provinces had a board of assessors or advisers with whom they took counsel before rendering judgment; see Cicero, ad fam. 8, 8; Verr. 2, 13; Sueton. vit. Tiber. 33; Lampridius, vit. Alex. Sever c. 46; cf. Josephus, b. j. 2, 16, 1).
**† συμβούλιον , - ου , τό
( < σύμβουλος ),
[in LXX : 4Ma 17:17 א * ;]
a word of the Græco-Roman period (of. Lat. consilium, and v. Deiss., BS , 238) = cl . συμβουλία ( Arist ., Xen .),
1. counsel: σ . λαμβάνειν , Mat 12:14; Mat 22:15; Mat 27:7; Mat 28:12; διδόναι , Mar 3:6 ( ποιεῖν , Rec. ); ποιεῖν , Mar 15:1 ( ἑτοιμάζειν , WH , mg .).
2. By meton ., a council (4Mac, l.c . א ; συνέδριον , AR ): Act 25:12 ( v . MM , xxiv). †