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a council of elders Original Word: γερουσίαTransliteration: gerousia Phonetic Spelling: (gher-oo-see'-ah) Short Definition: council of elders
from gerón Definition a council of elders NASB Word Usage Senate (1). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
From geron; the eldership, i.e. (collectively) the Jewish Sanhedrin -- senate. see GREEK geron γερουσίαν (gerousian) − 1 Occurrence
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