סַנְהֶדְרֵי

סַנְהֶדְרֵי, סַנְהֶדְרִיןf. (also pl.) (συνέδριον) Sanhedrin, the supreme council of the Jews; ס׳ גדולה the Great S., consisting of seventy-one members; ס׳ קטנה the Small S., a judicial court of twenty-three. Snh.I, 6. Ib. ראויה לס׳ fit to be a seat of the S. Macc.I, 10 ס׳ נוהגת בארץוכ׳ the S. may exercise its functions in Palestine and outside. Ib. ס׳ ההורגתוכ׳ a S. that executes capital punishment (more than) once in seven years. Ib. 9 (ref. to Deut. 17:6) שלא תהא ס׳ שומעתוכ׳ this intimates that the S. must not hear the testimony from the mouth of an interpreter. Snh.63a לס׳ שהרגווכ׳ that a S. which puts a person to death must not taste food during the entire day of execution; a. v. fr.Pl. סַנְהֶדְרָיוֹת, סַנְהֶדְרָאוֹת, סַנֶּדְרָ׳. Ib. I, 5 אין עושין ס׳ לשבטיםוכ׳ supreme courts for tribes (provincial courts, Small Sanhedrin) can be instituted only by decree of the court of seventy-one; Sifra Kdosh. ch. VIII, Par. 10 סנדריות של ישראל; Yalk. Lev. 619 סנהד׳ של שבטים, opp. ס׳ גדולה. Snh.16b כנדראות (also in Chald. diction); a. fr.Sanhedrin, name of a treatise, of the Order of Nziḳin, of Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud Babli a. Yrushalmi.