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/sˈɪnəgˌɔg/ Listen

noun

Synagogue n.

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. "My brethren,... if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring."

Any assembly of men. (Obs. or R.)

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Etymology of 'Synagogue'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Synagogue" Quotes from Famous Books

... the cooking utensils used in the sacred home. There is in Nazareth one building the walls of which perhaps were standing nineteen hundred years ago. This old wall is hoary with age and the Hebrew characters above the door indicate that it used to be a Jewish synagogue. Possibly it was the place where the great sermon was preached which so enraged the people that they tried to mob the preacher, but he escaped ...

— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols

... was conscious that again he tried to remember who he was, and where; and then the surroundings of the humble synagogue fell away, and he himself was standing looking at a jewel. It was a purple stone, oval-shaped and polished, perhaps about as large as the drop of dew which could hang in a harebell's heart. The stone was the colour of a harebell, and ...

— A Dozen Ways Of Love • Lily Dougall

... head was packed full of the stories of the great people of her race. Ezra, eleven years old, went to school in the synagogue every day with the other boys of the village, and diligently studied the Law and the Prophets. At home, Naomi was taught by her mother, not only the care of the house, but the history of the Hebrew people, their songs, their prayers, and ...

— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips

... twice when I was received by the Child of Kings in formal audience. Round the rest of this square, each placed in its own garden, were the houses of the great nobles and officials, and at its western end, among other public buildings, a synagogue or temple which looked like a model of that built by Solomon in Jerusalem, from the description of which it had indeed been copied, though, of course, upon ...

— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard

... pairs, and by rendering that relation indissoluble, has by these two things done more towards the peace, happiness, settlement, and civilization of the world than by any other part in this whole scheme of Divine wisdom. The direct contrary course has been taken in the synagogue of Antichrist,—I mean in that forge and manufactory of all evil, the sect which predominated in the Constituent Assembly of 1789. Those monsters employed the same or greater industry to desecrate and degrade that state, which other legislators have used to render it holy and honorable. ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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