Jump to: ATS • ISBE • Easton's • Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Library • Subtopics • Terms • Resources ATS Bible Dictionary SenateEaston's Bible Dictionary (Acts 5:21), the "elders of Israel" who formed a component part of the Sanhedrin. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.2. (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. 3. (n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons. 4. (n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government. 5. (n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London. 6. (n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia SENATE; SENATORsen'-at, sen'-a-ter: In Psalm 105:22, "teach his senators (the Revised Version (British and American) "elders") wisdom." The Hebrew is zaqen, "elder" Septuagint presbuteroi). In Acts 5:21, "called the council together and all the senate of the children of Israel." The Greek gerousia, is here evidently used as a more precise equivalent of the foregoing "council" (sunedrion), to which it is added by kai, explicative. Reference is had to the Sanhedrin. See SANHEDRIN. This term gerousia occurs in Septuagint Exodus 3:16, etc., and in 1 Maccabees 12:6; 2 Maccabees 1:10; 4:44 of the supreme council of the Jews (see GOVERNMENT). In 1 Maccabees 8:15; 12:3, bouleuterion, is used of the Roman senate, which is said to consist of 320 members meeting daily, consulting always for the people, to the end that they may be well governed. These statements are not quite accurate, since the senate consisted normally of 300 members, and met not daily, but on call of the magistrates. Originally, like the gerousia of the Jews, the representatives of families and clans (gentes), the senators were subsequently the ex-magistrates, supplemented, to complete the tale of members, by representatives of patrician (in time also of plebeian) families selected by the censor. The tenure was ordinarily for life, though it might be terminated for cause by the censor. Although constitutionally the senate was only an advisory body, its advice (senatus consultum, auctoritas) in fact became in time a mandate which few dared to disregard. During the republican period the senate practically ruled Rome; under the empire it tended more and more to become the creature and subservient tool of the emperors. Greek 1087. gerousia -- a council of elders ... Word Origin from geron Definition a council of elders NASB Word Usage Senate (1). ... From geron; the eldership, ie (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin -- senate. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1087.htm - 6k Library Cliv. Report of the Same to the Senate of Constantinople. this ... Epistle of Marcus Aurelius to the Senate in which He Testifies ... Letter clxxxiii. To the Senate of Samosata. Letter Xcvii. To the Senate of Tyana. Concerning the Books of Numa Pompilius, which the Senate Ordered ... How Claudius was Seized Upon and Brought Out of his House and ... It was the Fifth Anniversary of that Resolution of the Senate ... And by this Stratagem it was that I Gradually Got all the Senate ... Have Read the Document Sent from the East by Our Friend and Good ... Of the Temple of Concord, which was Erected by a Decree of the ... Thesaurus Senate (1 Occurrence)...SENATE; SENATOR. ... These statements are not quite accurate, since the senate consisted normally of 300 members, and met not daily, but on call of the magistrates. ... /s/senate.htm - 9k Senator Rome (12 Occurrences) Augustus (4 Occurrences) Triumph (52 Occurrences) Tiberius (1 Occurrence) Deputy (7 Occurrences) Demetrius (3 Occurrences) Province (66 Occurrences) Pass (1172 Occurrences) Resources Who are the various Herods mentioned in the Bible? | GotQuestions.orgWhat influence did Julius Caesar have on biblical history? | GotQuestions.org Who was Antiochus Epiphanes? | GotQuestions.org Senate: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus Concordance Senate (1 Occurrence)Acts 5:21 Subtopics Related Terms |