Counselor by wonders?

Wonder filled advisor?

This is hard to speak of yet magnificent in the understanding.

You’re right that the LXX doesn’t match up with the Hebrew closely enough to use that source as guidance, though the mismatch potentially tells us that even back then there was some confusion over the line.

The DSS quote the line in 1QM 11:10 (which Sukenik numbered 3:10). Starting in 11:8, “…For children come through the [sea-]breakers of death [9] and a women pregnant with a boy is racked by her pangs, for through the breakers of death she gives birth to a male and through the pangs of Sheol emerges [10] from the crucible of the pregnant woman a wonder couselor with his might [peleh yo'eitz im g'vurato] and the boy is freed from the breakers….”

But, again — though it’s interesting — I’m not sure how it helps.

I think Jerome specifically claimed there were six titles given here to the Lord, but I don’t have details.

Joh 7:43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
Joh 7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
Joh 7:45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
Joh 7:46 The officers answered, Never man spake like th

I wonder if, in line with your “who he is, rather than what he does” slant, his “counsel” is not what he gives to others but what he has available to himself. That is, he makes decisions based on a bottomless understanding. In other words, he is one who has awesome [in the non-trivial meaning] insight. When he says something in a group, he gets reactions like this:

Luk 4:22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?

Honestly, Joel, I feel a bit of that wonder myself when you seem to peg some of these thorny texts so insightfully. Now, don’t let that go to your head, but you really seem to have a unique gift. And to be honest, I think it is because the rest of us are just dumb!

Here’s another possible allusion:

Mat 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
Mat 7:29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

(Trying to keep from theology here, only to see how it might have moved early Christians into theological directions.)