Associations to the word «Sanhedrin»

Wiktionary

SANHEDRIN, noun. (historical) An assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every major city in Israel.
SANHEDRIN, noun. (historical) The assembly of seventy-one judges sitting in Jerusalem.

Dictionary definition

SANHEDRIN, noun. The supreme judicial and ecclesiastical council of ancient Jerusalem.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne