Synagogue
['sɪnəgɒg]
Definition
(noun.) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation.
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Definition
(n.) A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
(n.) The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A congregation in the early Christian church.
(n.) Any assembly of men.
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Definition
n. an assembly of Jews for worship: a Jewish place of worship.—adjs. Syn′agogal Synagog′ical.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a synagogue, foretells that you have enemies powerfully barricading your entrance into fortune's realms. If you climb to the top on the outside, you will overcome oppositions and be successful. If you read the Hebrew inscription on a synagogue, you will meet disaster, but will eventually rebuild your fortunes with renewed splendor. See Church.
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Examples
- In Capernaum he had preached in the synagogue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I'll make the hinds know they must share the high places of the synagogue with those whom the synagogue properly belongs to. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The unregenerated called this saloon the Synagogue. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- After prayers the Synagogue shortly took the semblance of a writing school. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The pleasure ship was a synagogue, and the pleasure trip was a funeral excursion without a corpse. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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