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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79109" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79109" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <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" /> == | ||
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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" /> == | ||
