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γερούσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γερούσιος γερούσιη γερούσιον

Structure: γερουσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/rwn

Sense

  1. for or befitting the seniors or chiefs, taken by them

Examples

  • ἐλθὼν οὖν συνάγαγε τὴν γερουσίαν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐρεῖσ πρὸσ αὐτούσ. Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν ὦπταί μοι, Θεὸσ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Θεὸσ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Θεὸσ Ἰακώβ, λέγων. ἐπισκοπῇ ἐπέσκεμμαι ὑμᾶσ καὶ ὅσα συμβέβηκεν ὑμῖν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 3:16)
  • ἐπορεύθη δὲ Μωυσῆσ καὶ Ἀαρὼν καὶ συνήγαγον τὴν γερουσίαν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 4:29)
  • Ἐκάλεσε δὲ Μωυσῆσ πᾶσαν γερουσίαν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτούσ. ἀπελθόντεσ λάβετε ὑμῖν αὐτοῖσ πρόβατον κατὰ συγγενείασ ὑμῶν καὶ θύσατε τὸ πάσχα. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:21)
  • ΚΑΙ ἐγενήθη τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ὀγδόῃ, ἐκάλεσε Μωυσῆσ Ἀαρὼν καὶ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν γερουσίαν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 9:1)
  • καὶ συλλαβόντεσ αὐτὸν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξάξουσιν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γερουσίαν τῆσ πόλεωσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην τοῦ τόπου (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 21:19)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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