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koun´sil, koun´silẽr (συμβουÌλιον, sumbouÌlion): An assembly of advisers (); a body of those taking counsel (see Schürer's Jewish People in the Time of Christ, I (1), 60). Distinguished from συνεÌδÏιον, suneÌdrion, the supreme court of the Jews, by being of a less formal character, i.e. less of an institution. For “council†in the latter sense, its most frequent use, see SANHEDRIN. A councilor (Greek bouleuteÌ„Ìs) was a member of the Sanhedrin. Applied to Joseph of Arimathea (; ). In the King James Version “counsellor.