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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: γερουσία

(Strong's #1087 — Noun Feminine — gerousia — gher-oo-see'-ah )

"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.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Senate'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​s/senate.html. 1940.
 
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