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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)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
27x in 4 unique form(s)
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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, 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 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.]
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 - Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:9 - Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:1 - On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:3 - And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7 - So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak’s message.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 - and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip[fn] him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 - then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 - Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - “You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God: the heads of your tribes,[fn] your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years.
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