'Counsel' in the Bible

Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.

And [after] taking counsel, they purchased {with} them the Potter's Field, for a burial place for strangers.

And [after they] had assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a rather large sum of money to the soldiers,

in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all [things] according to the counsel of his will,