Eldership
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Eldership (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The state of being older; seniority. 2. (n.) Office of an elder; collectively,
a body of elders. Multi-Version Concordance Eldership (3 Occurrences). ...
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Eldest (17 Occurrences)

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Elder (34 Occurrences)
... 16:21; 21:23; 26:59). The Jewish eldership was transferred from the old
dispensation to the new. "The creation of the office of ...
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Presbyter
... the elders" (Luke 7:3). Naturally the Christian church, beginning at Jerusalem and
formed on the lines of the synagogue, took over the eldership into its own ...
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Prophetic (9 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 4:14 be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through
prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership; (See NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Presbytery (1 Occurrence)
... the elders" (Luke 7:3). Naturally the Christian church, beginning at Jerusalem and
formed on the lines of the synagogue, took over the eldership into its own ...
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Sanhedrim (20 Occurrences)
... Luke 22:66 And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the
people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own ...
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Elders (203 Occurrences)

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Within (400 Occurrences)
... (WEY). 1 Timothy 4:14 be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through
prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership; (See NAS). ...
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Bible Concordance
Eldership (3 Occurrences)

Luke 22:66 And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,
(YLT)

Acts 22:5 as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,
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1 Timothy 4:14 be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;
(YLT)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) The state of being older; seniority.

2. (n.) Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.

Greek
4242. presbeia -- age, seniority
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: presbeia Phonetic Spelling: (pres-bi'-ah) Short
Definition: an embassy, delegation Definition: an embassy, delegation, eldership ...
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1087. gerousia -- a council of elders
... council of elders, Sanhedrin. From geron; the eldership, ie (collectively) the Jewish
Sanhedrin -- senate. see GREEK geron. (gerousian) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Library

For the Centenary Anniversaries of the Brethren's Eldership, and ...
... For the Centenary Anniversaries of the Brethren's Eldership, and the beginning of
the Society for the furtherance of the Gospel in the Moravian Church ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn cclxxiii for the centenary.htm

Traditionalism, Its Origin, Character, and Literature - the ...
... ruler. But this is not all. The earlier Maccabees surrounded themselves
with a governing eldership. [466] [467] On the coins of ...
/.../chapter viii traditionalism its origin.htm

Acts VIII
... for, although Paul states that the gift which was in him was given him through prophesy
and "the laying on of the hands of the eldership;" [142] yet he exhorts ...
/.../mcgarvey/a commentary on acts of the apostles/acts viii.htm

The Constitution of the Church in the Second Century.
... as a common council requires an official head, or mayor, to take the chair at its
meetings, and to act on its behalf, so the ancient eldership, or presbytery ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter v the constitution of.htm

Acts XIV
... Those congregations of the present day which are under the oversight of an efficient
eldership, other things being equal, come nearer, in every good word and ...
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The Evolution of Early Congregationalism the Stone which the ...
... Barrowe had seen the confusion and disintegration of Browne's church, and he planned
by thus introducing the Calvinistic theory of eldership to avoid the ...
/.../chapter i the evolution of.htm

The Saybrook Platform
... definition of the powers of the church is not strictly Congregational, because
initiative action and governing powers are intrusted to the eldership, while, to ...
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The Extraordinary Teachers of the Apostolic Church; and Its ...
... for the edification of saints as for the conversion of sinners; and it was, therefore,
necessary that at least some of the session or eldership connected with ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter ii the extraordinary teachers.htm

Alexandria and Rome - the Jewish Communities in the Capitals of ...
... choir of this Jewish cathedral stood seventy chairs of state, encrusted with precious
stones, for the seventy elders who constituted the eldership of Alexandria ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter v alexandria and rome.htm

Palestine Eighteen Centuries Ago
... first-fruits, the anointing oil, the tabernacle of meeting, the kingship of the
house of David, the sacrifices, the land of Israel, and the eldership." In truth ...
/.../sketches of jewish social life/chapter 1 palestine eighteen centuries.htm

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