synagogue

A building or place of meeting for worship and religious instruction in the Jewish faith.

A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.

The Jewish religion as organized or typified in local congregations.

An organization of the Jews for the purposes of religious instruction and worship.

The building where such instruction and worship are maintained.

An assembly of Jewish Christians in the early church.

Hence Any assembly of men.

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.