Senate
SENATE
Mal 5:21 . See SANHEDRIN.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Senate
See Sanhedrin.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Senate
(, eldership, used by classical writers for a deliberative or legislative body, and by the Sept. for the collective mass of the Jewish elders, and later for the Sanhedrim) is used once in the New Test. (Act 5:21) for some portion of the Sanhedrim, apparently the elders, who constituted its main element. SEE ELDER; SEE SANHEDRIM.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Senate
(Acts 5:21), the “elders of Israel” who formed a component part of the Sanhedrin.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Senate
SENATE is the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Gr. gerousia in Act 5:21, where all the senate of the children of Israel is intended to explain the preceding council (synedrion). See Sanhedrin. It is the Jewish senate that is meant likewise in 2Ma 1:10; 2Ma 4:44. The Roman senate is alluded to in 1Ma 8:17 ff.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Senate
The Sanhedrin
Act 5:21
Senator, an elder
Psa 105:22 Elder; Government
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Senate
“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 Act 5:21, apparently epexegetically of the preceding word sunedrion, “council,” the Sanhedrin.