Word

συνέδριον

synédrion · G4892 · Greek · 22 occurrences

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Meanings

city council, council of judges

A socio-political group acting as a judicial council

Examples
Matthew 10:17 “But be on guard against people, for they will hand you over to the courts and flog you in their synagogues;
Mark 13:9 “But be on your guard; for they will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them.
Sanhedrin, the council of the Jews

The highest Jewish council, exercising jurisdiction in civil and religious matters, but having no power over life and death or over military actions or taxation

Examples
Matthew 5:22 “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be answerable to the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be answerable to the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests and the entire Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.
Mark 14:55 Now the chief priests and the entire Council were trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.

How it’s used In 5 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

2 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ζητέωto seek, to look for 2
συνέρχομαιto come together, to gather 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 4 groups

παραγίνομαιto come 1
συγκαλέωto call together 1
συνάγωto gather together, to call together 1
ἀτενίζωto look straight at 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 6 groups

εἰςto 12
ἐνin 7
ἔξωoutside 2
ἐπίon 2
μετάwith, after 2
σύνwith, together with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πρόσωπονface 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

City council, council of judges11.79: Jesus warns His disciples, “they will hand you over to the courts, and flog you in their synagogues” (Matthew 10:17).
Sanhedrin, the council of the Jews11.80: Matthew records that the chief priests and elders “were trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death... before the whole Council” (Matthew 26:59).

Word family 18 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἑδραῖος hedraîos · G1476 · firm, steadfast, unwavering · 3×καθίζω kathízō · G2523 · to sit, to sit down, to be seated · 46×συνέδριονsynédrion · G4892καθέζομαι kathézomai · G2516 · to sit, to sit down, to be seated · 7×καθέδρα kathédra · G2515 · seat, stool, chair · 3×ἀνακαθίζω anakathízō · G339 · to sit up · 2×ἀφεδρών aphedrṓn · G856 · latrine, toilet · 2×ἐνέδρα enédra · G1747 · an ambuscade, i.e. murderous purpose · 2×ἐνεδρεύω enedreúō · G1748 · to be in an ambush, to make plans for a secret attack, ambush · 2×συγκαθίζω synkathízō · G4776 · to sit down with, to be seated with, sitting with · 2×ἐδαφίζω edaphízō · G1474 · to raze, to tear down, to destroy · 1×ἔδαφος édaphos · G1475 · ground · 1×ἑδραίωμα hedraíōma · G1477 · support, foundation, basis · 1×ἐπικαθίζω epikathízō · G1940 · to sit upon, to mount, to get on · 1×εὐπρόσεδρος euprósedros · G2145 · devoted to, devoted service of, devotion · 1×παρακαθίζω parakathízō · G3869 · to sit down by, to sit down near · 1×προσεδρεύω prosedreúō · G4332 · to serve · 1×ἔνεδρον énedron · G1749 · ambush, planning a secret attack · 0×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon συνεδρίου, τό (σύν and ἕδρα; hence, properly, 'a sitting together'), in Greek authors…

συνεδρίου, τό (σύν and ἕδρα; hence, properly, 'a sitting together'), in Greek authors from Herodotus down, any assembly (especially of magistrates, judges, ambassadors), whether convened to deliberate or to pass judgment; Vulg.concilium; in the Scriptures
1. any session or assembly of persons deliberating or adjudicating (Prov 22:10; Ps 25:4; Jer 15:17; Jer 15:2 Macc. 14:5; 4 Macc. 17:17): συνήγαγον συνέδριον (A. V. "gathered a council]"], Jn 11:47.
2. specifically,
a. the Sanhedrin, the great council at Jerusalem (Talmud, סַנְהֵדְרִין), consisting of seventy-one members, viz. scribes (see γραμματεύς, 2), elders, prominent members of the high priestly families (hence, called ἀρχιερεῖς; see ἀρχειρευς, 2), and the high priest, the president of the body. The fullest periphrasis for Sanhedrin is found in Mt 26:3 R G; Mk 14:43, Mk 14:53 (viz. οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καί οἱ γραμματεῖς καί οἱ πρεσβύτεροι). The more important causes were brought before this tribunal, inasmuch as the Roman rulers of Judaea had left to it the power of trying such cases, and also of pronouncing sentence of death, with the limitation that a capital sentence pronounced by the Sanhedrin was not valid unless it were confirmed by the Roman procurator (cf. Jn 18:31; Josephus, Antiquities 20, 9, 1). The Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrin to Num 11:16f. The Sanhedrin (A. V. council) is mentioned in Mt 5:22; Mt 26:59; Mk 14:55; Mk 15:1; Lk 22:66;. Acts 4:15; Acts 5:21, Acts 5:27, Acts 5:34, Acts 5:41; Acts 6:12, Acts 6:15; Acts 22:30; Acts 23:1, Acts 23:6, Acts 23:15, Acts 23:20, Acts 23:28; Acts 24:20; used ((as in classical Greek)) of the place of meeting in Acts 4:15.
b. the smaller tribunal or council (so A. V.) which every Jewish town had for the decision of the less important cases (see κρίσις, 4): Mt 10:17; Mk 13:9. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Synedrium; Leyrer in Herzog edition 1 under the word Synedrium (Strack in edition 2); Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. 2te Aufl. § 23, II., III. (and in Riehm, p. 1595ff); Holtzmann in Schenkel see, p. 446ff; (BB. DD., under the word (especially Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto); Hamburger, Real-Encycl. ii, pp. 1147 -1155; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii. 553ff; Farrar, Life of Christ, Excurs. xiii.).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Socio-Political22 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0