gerousias

Strong’sG1087

body of elders

stem gerousi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

γερουσία, -ας, ἡ

(< γέρων), [in LXX (Hex. only in OT) for זָקֵן;]

a council of elders, senate; in NT, of the Sanhedrin (Cl. Rev., i, 43 f.; DB, ext., 99): Ac 5:21.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1087 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidgher-oo-see'-ah

the eldership, i.e. (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin

Fromfrom G1088;

King Jamessenate.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

γερουσί-α, ἡ,
Council of Elders, senate, Refs 5th c.BC+; compare γερωΐα and γεροντί; also of the Carthaginian Refs 4th c.BC+; and the Roman, Refs 1st c.AD+; of the Jewish Sanhedrin, LXX+NT
2 sacred college, ἱερὰ γ. Refs 3rd c.BC+
II ={πρεσβεία}, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

council1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	gerousias	gerousiais
object accusative	gerousian1×γερουσίαν	gerousiain
direct address vocative	gerousiar	gerousiair
of, belonging to genitive	gerousiau	gerousiaiu
to, for dative	gerousia	gerousiai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

gerousistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

gerousia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

gerousian“council”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 5:21“council”… sunkalala tem sunedriem kai pantan tan gerousian toiu huioiu Israēl, kai apostelala eis …… the Sanhedrin— the full assembly of the elders of Israel— and sent to the jail for …