synagogue

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  1. noun A building or place of meeting for worship and religious instruction in the Jewish faith.
  2. noun A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.
  3. noun The Jewish religion as organized or typified in local congregations.

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  • The religious law is a system of instruction, the synagogue is a school. —  Rashi
  • As you can see, the synagogue is a protect archaeological site and entry is forbidden. —  Life in Israel
  • If a synagogue is attacked, I guarantee that within minutes the airwaves will be filled with insinuating voices insisting that the "root cause" of the crime was a rational anger at the behaviour of Israel or the Jewish diaspora ... —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • If a synagogue is attacked, I guarantee that within minutes the airwaves will be filled with insinuating voices insisting that the "root cause" of the crime was a rational anger at the behaviour of Israel or the Jewish diaspora. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • Another widely held origin for the word "cholent" is that it came frum "Shule endte" -- synagogue is over, which is when the cholent was served.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French sinagoge, from Late Latin synagōga, from Greek sunagōgē, assembly, synagogue, from sunagein, to bring together : sun-, syn- + agein, to lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also sinagogue; from French synagogue = Spanish Italian sinagoga = Portuguese synagoga = D. G. Danish synagoge = Swedish synagoga, from Late Latin synagoga, from Greek συναγωγή, a bringing together, a collecting, collection, in LXX and N. T. an assembly, synagogue, from συνάγειν, gather or bring together, from σύν, together, + ἂγειν, drive, lead: see agent.
 

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