- A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose
of worship, or the performance of religious rites. - The building or place appropriated to the religious
worship of the Jews. - 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, the
Sanhedrin. - A congregation in the early Christian church. - Any assembly of men.
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