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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, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “[fn]I indeed care about 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 with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt, and you all will say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 - Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the sons of Israel;

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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “[fn]Bring out and take for yourselves [fn]lambs according to your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:9 -

Then Moses went up [fn]with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

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Now it happened on the eighth day that 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 - “Then to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7 -

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went away with the fees for divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam and spoke Balak’s words to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - “Now it happened that when you heard the voice from 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 give him over into the hand of the avenger of blood, 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 go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - “And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which 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 has not been plowed or sown, and they 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 [fn]who are 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 mother shall seize him and bring him out to the elders of his city [fn]at the gateway of his hometown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - “Then the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he [fn]turned against her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 - and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But [fn]this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - “So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - “But if the man does not desire 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 raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to 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 summon him and speak to him. And if he stands and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 -

Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep the entire commandment which I am commanding you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 -

“You stand today, all of you, before Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in years.
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