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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 BoxExo 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 - Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:3 - Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without defect—for a burnt offering,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7 - The elders of Moab and Midian left, taking with them the fee for divination. When they came to Balaam, they told him what Balak had said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 - Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - and the elders shall take the man and punish him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 - his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 - Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands that I give you today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - summoned all Israel—their elders, leaders, judges and officials—and said to them: “I am very old.
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