Various words are so translated:
1. dethabar (Dan. 3:2-3).
2. haddabrin (Dan. 3:24, 27; Dan. 4:36; Dan. 6:7).
3. yeat (Ezra 7:14-15). These three words are Chaldee, and refer to various heathen officials as counselors of state.
4. yaats. The counselors in Israel, such as Jonathan, and Ahithophel, David’s counselors (1 Chron. 27:32-33). In Isaiah 9:6 the same word is applied to the Lord Jesus: “His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
5. βουλευτής, a member of the Sanhedrin (Mark 15:43; Luke 23:50).
6. σύμωουλος, “a joint counselor” (Rom. 11:34).