Lexical Summary gerousia: a council of elders Original Word: γερουσίαTransliteration: gerousia Phonetic Spelling: (gher-oo-see'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a council of elders Meaning: Senate -- a council of elders Strong's Concordance council of elders, SanhedrinFrom geron; the eldership, i.e. (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin -- senate. see GREEK geron Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |
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