sanhedrin
IPA: sænhˈidrɪn
Root Word: Sanhedrin
noun
- (historical) An assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every major city in Israel.
- (historical) The assembly of seventy-one judges sitting in Jerusalem.
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Examples of "sanhedrin" in Sentences
- 2004 attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.
- To obey the authority of the Sanhedrin.
- The formation of a placeholder Sanhedrin.
- The dissolution of the classical Sanhedrin.
- This settler appealed to the Sanhedrin as a court.
- The Sanhedrin is mentioned frequently in the Gospels.
- But the officer refused to appear before the Sanhedrin.
- Sanhedrin is a poor neighborhood north of the university.
- Paul was a Pharisee, and so not a member of the Sanhedrin.
- Sanhedrin 57a is the beginning of the discourse on the Noahide laws.
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