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SENATE is the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Gr. gerousia in Act_5:21, where ‘all the senate of the children of Israel’ is intended to explain the preceding ‘council’ (synedrion). See Sanhedrin. It is the Jewish ‘senate’ that is meant likewise in 2Ma_1:10; 2Ma_4:44. The Roman senate is alluded to in 1Ma_8:17 ff.