Meaning the term is defined by how it is used in the verse.
What Does Elohim Mean and Why Is This Name of God So Important?
Quoting from link "The term "
Elohim" means “supreme one” or “mighty one.” It is not only used of the one true God but is also used on occasion to refer to human rulers, judges, and even angels." End of quote.
Also, the Hebrew word mal' akh is for angel like the Greek term angelos is.
Anyway for trying to show that God spoke to angels for the creation of man or for scattering the people at the tower of Babylon, does not hold against the proof in scripture that He needs no one help as He just speaks it and it is done.
Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it
So the problem remains for you to answer to Whom was the Lord speaking to and yet in scripture only the Lord did it?
Is the Lord crazy in talking to Himself?
Or is Elohim plural for a reason as describing that One God having Three Persons that makes up the One God? Since the Word of God is the Creator, one may discern that the Son asked the Father for permission to create man in "our mage & after our likeness". and having gotten His approval and the Spirit's compliance, He created man in His image & after His likeness.
That explains the Lord talking to His Father in making that request for how the Lord created man in His image.
John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made....
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
All the truths in His words line up for me in seeing this truth in His words of the Three witnesses within the One God for God to establish a word in creation or to judge any one..