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1. (n.) synagogue
a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction or serving as a community center.
2. synagogue
a congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship.
3. synagogue
Rare. the Jewish religion; Judaism.
Etymology: (1125–75; < LL synagōga < Gk synagōgē assembly, meeting =syn-syn - +agōgē, n. use of fem. of agōgós (adj.) gathering; see -agogue)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) synagogue, temple, tabernacle
(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
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1. (noun) synagogue
a Jewish place of worship
They go to synagogue regularly.; a local synagogue
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) synagogue
a congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites
2. (noun) synagogue
the building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews
3. (noun) synagogue
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
4. (noun) synagogue
a congregation in the early Christian church
5. (noun) synagogue
any assembly of men
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. synagogue
a Jewish institution for worship and religious instruction which dates from the period of the Babylonian Captivity, specially to keep alive in the minds of the people a knowledge of the law. The decree ordaining it required the families of a district to meet twice every Sabbath for this purpose, and so religiously did the Jewish people observe it that it continues a characteristic ordinance of Judaism to this day. The study of the law became henceforth their one vocation, and the synagogue was instituted both to instruct them in it and to remind them of the purpose of their separate existence among the nations of the earth. High as the Temple and its service still stood in the esteem of every Jew, from the period of the Captivity it began to be felt of secondary importance to the synagogue and its service. With the erection and extension of the latter the people were being slowly trained into a truer sense of the nature of religious worship, and gradually made to feel that to know the will of God and do it was a more genuine act of homage to Him than the offering of sacrifices upon an altar or the observance of any religious rite. Under such training the issue between the Jew and the Samaritan became of less and less consequence, and he and not the Samaritan was on the pathway which led direct to the final worship of God in spirit and in truth (John iv. 22).
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Sense: (the building used by) a gathering of Jews meeting together for worship.
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 Afrikaans: sinagoge |
 Arabic: كَنيس، مَكان الصّلاه عِند |
 Bulgarian: синагога |
 Brazilian: sinagoga |
 Czech: synagóga |
 German: die Synagoge |
 Danish: synagoge |
 Greek: συναγωγή |
 Spanish: sinagoga |
 Estonian: sünagoog |
 Farsi: كنشت يهوديان |
 Finnish: synagoga |
 French: synagogue |
 Hebrew: בֵּית כְּנֶסֶת |
 Hindi: यहूदी लोगों का प्रार्थनास |
 Croatian: sinagoga |
 Hungarian: zsinagóga |
 Indonesian: sinagog |
 Icelandic: samkunduhús, sÿnagóga |
 Italian: sinagoga |
 Japanese: ユダヤ教会 |
 Korean: 유태교의 에배당 |
 Lithuanian: sinagoga |
 Latvian: sinagoga |
 Malay: synagogue |
 Dutch: synagoge |
 Norwegian: synagoge |
 Polish: synagoga |
 Persian: كنشت يهوديان |
 Pashto: د یهودیانو جومات |
 Portuguese: sinagoga |
 Romanian: sinagogă |
 Russian: синагога |
 Slovak: synagóga |
 Slovenian: sinagoga |
 Serbian: sinagoga |
 Swedish: synagoga |
 Thai: โบสถ์ของศาสนายิว |
 Turkish: havra, sinagog |
 Taiwanese: 猶太教堂，猶太人集會 |
 Ukrainian: синагога |
 Urdu: یہودیوں کا مجمع براءے عبا |
 Vietnamese: hội đạo Do thái |
 Chinese: 犹太教堂，犹太人集会 |
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