Greek noun (feminine) · G1087
γερουσία
gerousiagher-oo-see'-ah
council of elders
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gerousía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1087is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1087
the eldership, i.e. (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin
The King James renders it: senate.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gerousia is rendered "council of elders". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 5:21At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
The first use
At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
Acts 5:21γερουσίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Senate1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
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How it is spelled
- γερουσίαν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Acts
one use
At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
- γερουσίανgerousiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Senate
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.