Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJames Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Counsellor
Subjects in this Topic:
COUNSELLOR.—This is the spelling in modern editions of the AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . In the ed. of 1611 it is ‘counseller,’ except in Ezr_8:25, Pro_12:20; Pro_15:22, where the spelling is ‘counsellour.’ The word is used mostly of a king’s counsellor, or more generally of one who gives counsel. But in Dan_3:2-3 it means a justice; and in Mar_15:43, Luk_23:50, it is used of Joseph of Arimathæa as a member of the Sanhedrin. In Dan_3:24; Dan_3:27; Dan_4:36; Dan_6:7 the peculiar word rendered ‘counsellor’ in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] is hesitatingly translated by Driver ‘minister’; RV [Note: Revised Version.] retains ‘counsellor.’