'Counsel' in the Bible

but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by him.)

Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?

(this man had not assented to their counsel and deed), of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who also waited, himself also, for the kingdom of God