συνέδριον

sunevdrion sunevdrion,
sunedrivou,
tov (
suvn and
e{dra; hence, properly, `a sitting together'), in Greek authors from Herodotus down, any assembly (especially of magistrates, judges, ambassadors), whether convened to deliberate or to pass judgment; Vulgate concilium; in the Scriptures1. any session or assembly of persons deliberating or adjudicating (; (); ; ; ):
sunhvgagon
sunevdrion (A. V. "gathered a council]"], .2. specifically, a. the Sanhedrin, the great council at Jerusalem (Talmud, @yrId]hen?s'), consisting of seventy-one members, viz. scribes (see
grammateuv", 2), elders, prominent members of the high priestly families (hence, called
ajrcierei'"; see
ajrceireu", 2), and the high priest, the president of the body. The fullest periphrasis for Sanhedrin is found in R G; , (viz.
oiJ
ajrcierei'"
kaiv
oiJ
grammatei'"
kaiv
oiJ
presbuvteroi). The more important causes were brought before this tribunal, inasmuch as the Roman rulers of Judaea had left to it the power of trying such cases, and also of pronouncing sentence of death, with the limitation that a capital sentence pronounced by the Sanhedrin was not valid unless it were confirmed by the Roman procurator (cf. ; Josephus, Antiquities 20, 9, 1). The Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrin to f. The Sanhedrin (A. V. council) is mentioned in ; ; ; ; ;. ; ,,,; ,; ; ,,,,; ; used ((as in classical Greek)) of the place of meeting in . b. the smaller tribunal or council (so A. V.) which every Jewish town had for the decision of the less important cases (see
krivsi", 4): ; . Cf. Winer's RWB under the word Synedrium; Leyrer in Herzog edition 1 under the word Synedrium (Strack in edition 2); Sch?rer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. 2te Aufl. sec. 23, II., III. (and in Riehm, p. 1595ff); Holtzmann in Schenkel see, p. 446ff; (BB. DD., under the word Sanhedrim (especially Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto); Hamburger, Real-Encycl. ii, pp. 1147 -1155; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii. 553ff; Farrar, Life of Christ, Excurs. xiii.).*