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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_172879" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_172879" /> == | ||
<p> (1): | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) The governing body of the [[Universities]] of [[Cambridge]] and London. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. </p> | ||
== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79109" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79109" /> == | ||
<div> 1: Γερουσία (Strong'S #1087 | <div> '''1: '''''Γερουσία''''' ''' (Strong'S #1087 — Noun [[Feminine]] — gerousia — gher-oo-see'-ah ) </div> <p> "a council of elders" (from geron, "an old man," a term which early assumed a political sense among the Greeks, the notion of age being merged in that of dignity), is used in Acts 5:21 , apparently epexegetically of the preceding word sunedrion, "council," the Sanhedrin. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62793" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62793" /> == | ||
<p> SEN'ATE, n. L. senatus, from senex, old. </p> 1.An a assembly or council of senators a body of the principal inhabitants of the city or state, <p> with a share in the government. The senate of ancient | <p> SEN'ATE, n. L. senatus, from senex, old. </p> 1.An a assembly or council of senators a body of the principal inhabitants of the city or state, <p> with a share in the government. The senate of ancient Rome was one of the most illustrious bodies of men that ever bore this name. Some of the Swiss cantons have a senate, either legislative or executive. </p> 2. In the United States, senate denotes the higher branch or house of legislature. Such is the senate of the United States, or upper house of the congress and in most of the states, the higher and least numerous branch of the legislature, is called the senate. In the U. States, the senate is an elective body. 3. In a looser sense, Any legislative or deliberative boky of men as the eloquence of the senate. | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53902" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53902" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Senate]] </strong> is the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Gr. <em> gerousia </em> in Acts 5:21 , where ‘all the senate of the children of Israel’ is intended to explain the preceding ‘ <strong> council </strong> ’ ( <em> synedrion </em> ). See Sanhedrin. It is the [[Jewish]] ‘senate’ that is meant likewise in Malachi 1:10 Malachi 1:10; 2Ma 4:44 . The Roman senate is alluded to in 1Ma 8:17 ff. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17106" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17106" /> == | ||
<p> Acts 5:21 . See [[Sanhedrin]] . </p> | <p> Acts 5:21 . See [[Sanhedrin]] . </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_43567" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_43567" /> == | ||
Acts 5: | Acts 5:21Sanhedrin | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_33470" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_33470" /> == | ||
Acts 5:21 | Acts 5:21 | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57381" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57381" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_59918" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_59918" /> == | ||
<p> ( | <p> ( '''''Γερουσία''''' '', Eldership,'' used by classical writers for a deliberative or legislative body, and by the Sept. for the collective mass of the Jewish elders, and later for the Sanhedrim) is used once in the New Test. ( Acts 5:21) for some portion of the Sanhedrim, apparently the elders, who constituted its main element. (See [[Elder]]); (See [[Sanhedrim]]). </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_79562" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_79562" /> == | ||
<p> E . "an assembly of elders"), a name first bestowed by the Romans on their supreme legislative and administrative assembly; its formation is traditionally ascribed to Romulus; its powers, at their greatest during the Republic, gradually diminished under the Emperors; in modern times is used to designate the "Upper House" in the legislature of various countries, <i> e. g </i> . [[France]] and the | <p> E . "an assembly of elders"), a name first bestowed by the Romans on their supreme legislative and administrative assembly; its formation is traditionally ascribed to Romulus; its powers, at their greatest during the Republic, gradually diminished under the Emperors; in modern times is used to designate the "Upper House" in the legislature of various countries, <i> e. g </i> . [[France]] and the United States of America; is also the title of the governing body in many universities. </p> | ||
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