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What does "synagogue" mean?

Synagogue: The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.A congregation in the early Christian church. My brethren, . . . if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring. James ii. 1,2 (Rev. Ver.).
  3. 4.Any assembly of men. [Obs. or R.] Milton.

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