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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_172879" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_172879" /> == | ||
<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> | <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" /> == | ||
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== 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" /> == | ||
