Lexicon gerousia: a council of elders Original Word: γερουσία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: gerousia Phonetic Spelling: (gher-oo-see'-ah) Short Definition: body of elders Definition: the assembly or body of elders. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom gerónDefinitiona council of elders NASB TranslationSenate (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1087: γερουσίαγερουσία, γερουσίας, ἡ (adjective γερούσιος, belonging to old men, γέρων), a senate, council of elders; used in secular authors of the chief council of nations and cities ( ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι αἱ γερουσιαι, Xenophon, mem. 4, 4, 16; in the O. T. of the chief council not only of the whole people of Israel, Exodus 3:16, etc.; 1 Macc. 12:6, etc.; but also of cities, Deuteronomy 19:12, etc.); of the Great Council, the Sanhedrin of the Jews: Acts 5:21, where to τό συνέδριον is added καί πᾶσαν τήν γερουσίαν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ and indeed ( καί explicative) all the senate, to signify the full Sanhedrin. Cf. Schürer, Die Gemeindeverfassung d. Juden in Rom in d. Kaiserzeit nach d. Inschriften dargestellt. Leips. 1879, p. 18f; Hatch, Bamp. Lects. for 1880, p. 64f.)
Strong's council of elders, Sanhedrin From geron; the eldership, i.e. (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin -- senate. see GREEK geron |
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