'Council' in the Bible

And Ahimelech answereth the king and saith, 'And who among all thy servants is as David -- faithful, and son-in-law of the king, and hath turned aside unto thy council, and is honoured in thy house?

And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, 'To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.'