Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building or place of meeting for worship and religious instruction in the Jewish faith.
- noun A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.
- noun The Jewish religion as organized or typified in local congregations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An organization of the Jews for the purposes of religious instruction and worship.
- noun The building where such instruction and worship are maintained.
- noun An assembly of Jewish Christians in the early church.
- noun Hence Any assembly of men.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
- noun The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.
- noun The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the
Great Synagogue , and sometimes, though erroneously, theSanhedrin . - noun A congregation in the early Christian church.
- noun Obs. or R. Any assembly of men.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place where
Jews meet forworship . - noun A
congregation ofJews for the purpose ofworship orreligious study .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's a sacredness that reminds us why the word synagogue in Greek and beit knesset in Hebrew were chosen by Jews many centuries ago.
Brad Hirschfield: Why It Matters Where You Pray Brad Hirschfield 2011
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It's a sacredness that reminds us why the word synagogue in Greek and beit knesset in Hebrew were chosen by Jews many centuries ago.
Brad Hirschfield: Why It Matters Where You Pray Brad Hirschfield 2011
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It's a sacredness that reminds us why the word synagogue in Greek and beit knesset in Hebrew were chosen by Jews many centuries ago.
Brad Hirschfield: Why It Matters Where You Pray Brad Hirschfield 2011
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It's a sacredness that reminds us why the word synagogue in Greek and beit knesset in Hebrew were chosen by Jews many centuries ago.
Brad Hirschfield: Why It Matters Where You Pray Brad Hirschfield 2011
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It seems probable that the council was the larger tribunal of twenty-three, which sat in every city, and that under the term synagogue we are to understand a smaller court, probably that of the ten judges mentioned in the Talmud.
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If a synagogue is attacked, I guarantee that within minutes the airwaves will be filled with insinuating voices insisting that the “root cause” of the crime was a rational anger at the behaviour of Israel or the Jewish diaspora.
Nick Cohen - "I’m turning into a Jew!" Not a sheep 2009
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Located in a dark cemetery, which they must descend to enter, the synagogue is actually the inner chamber of a claustrophobic tomb that leaves the congregants essentially brain dead.
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And in regard to the question as a whole, we must not overlook the fact that in our sources the term synagogue is never applied to Christians.”
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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The crowd began to disperse but unfortunately they then lingered in neighboring streets, including Dohány utca where the famous Budapest synagogue is situated.
Global Voices in English » Hungary: Budapest Gay Pride Parade Protected 2009
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I could not think of a Jewish analogy except that I would rather have been in synagogue than smelling bodies burning.
Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India Perry Garfinkel 2010
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