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Lexicon :: Strong's G4523 - saddoukaios

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Σαδδουκαῖος
Transliteration
saddoukaios (Key)
Pronunciation
sad-doo-kah'-yos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from Σαδώκ (G4524)
mGNT
14x in 3 unique form(s) TR
14x in 3 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
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TDNT Reference: 7:35,992

Strong’s Definitions

Σαδδουκαῖος Saddoukaîos, sad-doo-kah'-yos; probably from G4524; a Sadducæan (i.e. Tsadokian), or follower of a certain heretical Israelite:—Sadducee.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G4523 in the following manner: Sadducees (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G4523 in the following manner: Sadducees (14x).

  1. Sadducees = "the righteous"

    1. a religious party at the time of Christ among the Jews, who denied that the oral law was a revelation of God to the Israelites, and who deemed the written law alone to be obligatory on the nation, as the divine authority. They denied the following doctrines:

      1. resurrection of the body

      2. immortality of the soul

      3. existence of spirits and angels

      4. divine predestination, affirmed free will

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Σαδδουκαῖος Saddoukaîos, sad-doo-kah'-yos; probably from G4524; a Sadducæan (i.e. Tsadokian), or follower of a certain heretical Israelite:—Sadducee.
STRONGS G4523:
Σαδδουκαῖος, Σαδδουκαιου, ὁ, a Sadducee, a member of the party of the Sadducees, who, distinguished for birth, wealth, and official position, and not averse to the favor of the Herod family and of the Romans, hated the common people, were the opponents of the Pharisees, and rejecting tradition (see παράδοσις, 2) acknowledged the authority of the O. T. alone in matters pertaining to faith and morals (Josephus, Antiquities 13, 10, 6); they denied not only the resurrection of the body (Matthew 22:23; Mark 12:18; Luke 20:27; Acts 23:8), but also the immortality of the soul and future retribution (ψυχῆς τέ τήν διαμονην καί τάς καθ' ᾅδου τιμωρίας καί τιμάς ἀναιρουσι, Josephus, b. j. 2, 8, 14, cf. Antiquities 18, 1, 4), as well as the existence of angels and spirits (Acts 23:8). They maintained man's freedom in opposition to the doctrine of divine predestination (according to Josephus, b. j. 2, 8, 14). They are mentioned in the N. T. (in addition to the one already referred to) in Matthew 3:7; Matthew 16:1, 6, 11f (in which passages they are associated apparently with the Pharisees contrary to the truth of history ((?) cf. the commentaries ad Iliad chapters)); Matthew 22:34; Acts 4:1; Acts 5:17; Acts 23:6f. The Sadducees derived their name apparently not from the Hebrew צַדִּיק, as though they boasted of being pre-eminently 'righteous' or 'upright' (since it cannot be shown that the vowel i ever passed over into u), but, according to a more probable conjecture now approved by many, from the Zadok (צָדוק, the Sept., Σαδδουκ), who was high priest in the time of David and exhibited special fidelity to the king and his house (2 Samuel 15:24ff; 1 Kings 1:32ff); hence, the posterity of this priest (צָדוק בְּנֵי, Ezekiel 40:46; Ezekiel 43:19; Ezekiel 44:15; Ezekiel 48:11) and all their adherents seem to have been called Σαδδουκαῖοι (צדוקים). Cf., besides others, Winers RWB, under the word, Sadducäer; Reuss in Herzog xiii., p. 289ff; (Sieffert in Herzog edition 2 xiii., pp. 210-244); Geiger, Sadduc. u. Pharisäer (Brsl. 1863); Keim, i., p. 273ff (English translation, i. (2nd edition), p. 353f); Hausrath in Schenkel iv., p. 518ff; Schürer, Ntl. Zeitgesch. 2te Aufl. § 26; Wellhausen, Pharis. u. Sadducäer (Greifsw. 1874); Oort, De oorsprong van den naam Sadducëen, in the Theolog. Tijdsehrift for 1876, p. 605ff; (Ginsburg, in Alexander's Kitto, under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, book iii., chapter ii.; Geikie, Life of Christ, chapter xlv. (cf. chapter v.); and B. D. American edition, under the word , for additional references).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
15:24
1 Kings
1:32
Ezekiel
40:46; 43:19; 44:15; 48:11
Matthew
3:7; 16:1; 16:6; 16:11; 22:23; 22:34
Mark
12:18
Luke
20:27
Acts
4:1; 5:17; 23:6; 23:8; 23:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4523 matches the Greek Σαδδουκαῖος (saddoukaios),
which occurs 14 times in 14 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:7 - But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:1 - The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:6 - “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:11 - How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:12 - Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:23 - That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:34 - Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:18 - Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:27 - Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:1 - The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:17 - Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:6 - Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:7 - When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:8 - (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.)
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