'Counsel' in the Bible

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was buried among his fathers and experienced decay [in the grave];

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan of God.

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down [from Jerusalem to Caesarea] with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus [acting as spokesman and counsel]. They presented to the governor their [formal] charges against Paul.

When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, and they decided to run the ship ashore there if they could.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would dive overboard and swim [to land] and escape;