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noun
An assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every major city in Israel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
The assembly of seventy-one judges sitting in Jerusalem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
the supreme judicial and ecclesiastical council of ancient Jerusalem
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: council
History
Borrowed from Hebrew סַנְהֶדְרִין (sanhedrín, “Sanhedrin”), from Ancient Greek συνέδριον (sunédrion, “sitting together, hence assembly or council”). Doublet of synedrion.
Across languages
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