γερουσία
gerousía · G1087 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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Sanhedrin, high council of the Jews
The highest council of the Jews (see also συνέδριον (synédrion, G4892), sense 2 ‘Sanhedrin,’ the council of the Jews) but with the implication of the maturity and relative advanced age of those constituting the membership of such a council
ExamplesActs 5:21 Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple area about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, that is, all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison for them to be brought.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- υἱόςson 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- παραγίνομαιto come 1
- συγκαλέωto call together 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- πρεσβυτέριον presbytérion · G4244 · high council of the Jews, group of elders, elders
- πρεσβυτέριον and the target term both denote a body of elders exercising collective authority — the Jewish council or Sanhedrin. The target extends this sense to a Christian body of elders (a presbytery) as well, while πρεσβυτέριον remains focused on the Jewish council, making this a near-synonym pair with overlapping but not identical scope.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Sanhedrin, high council of the Jews11.83
- Used of the official ruling council of the Jews, as of the apostles being sought for trial before the Senate and all the Council of the sons of Israel in Acts 5:21.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γερουσίας, ἡ (adjective γερούσιος, belonging to old men, γέρων), a senate, council of…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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