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Lexicon :: Strong's G1087 - gerousia

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γερουσία
Transliteration
gerousia (Key)
Pronunciation
gher-oo-see'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

γερουσία gerousía, gher-oo-see'-ah; from G1088; the eldership, i.e. (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin:—senate.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G1087 in the following manner: senate (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G1087 in the following manner: senate (1x).
  1. a senate, council of elders

    1. to denote the chief council of nations or cities

    2. the Sanhedrin

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
γερουσία gerousía, gher-oo-see'-ah; from G1088; the eldership, i.e. (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin:—senate.
STRONGS G1087:
γερουσία, -ας, , (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 γερουσίαι, 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 τὸ συνέδριον is added καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν 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.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
3:16
Deuteronomy
19:12
Acts
5:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1087 matches the Greek γερουσία (gerousia),
which occurs 27 times in 26 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 -

“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 -

“They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 -

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 -

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:9 -

Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:1 -

On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:3 -

“And tell the Israelites:[fn] Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 -

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”

Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7 -

The elders of Moab and Midian departed with fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and reported Balak’s words to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 -

“All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 -

“the elders of his city are to send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 -

“your elders and judges are to come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 -

“The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 -

“The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 -

“All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 -

“his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 -

“the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 -

“The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 -

“He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 -

Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 -

“But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 -

“The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 -

“then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 -

Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 -

“All of you are standing today before the LORD your God ​— ​your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 -

So Joshua summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in age,

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