noun · feminine
gerousias
Greekγερουσία (gerousia)
Strong’sG1087
body of elders
stem gerousi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
γερουσία, -ας, ἡ
(< γέρων), [in LXX (Hex. only in OT) for זָקֵן;]
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.
Every form
| 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
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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
gerousian“council”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 5:21“council”akouaratois de eiserchala hupo ton orthron eis tem hierem kai didaskale. Paragineratos de tos archierevos kai tois sun auto sunkalala tem sunedriem kai pantan tan gerousian toiu huioiu Israēl, kai apostelala eis tem desmōtēriem agira autoin.At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin— the full assembly of the elders of Israel— and sent to the jail for the apostles.