סַנְהֶדְרֵי, (also pl.) (συνέδριον) Sanhedrin, the supreme council of the Jews; ס׳ גדולה the Great S., consisting of seventy-one members; ס׳ קטנה the Small S., a judicial court of twenty-three. Snh. I, 6. Ib. ראויה לס׳ fit to be a seat of the S. Macc. I, 10 ס׳ נוהגת בארץ וכ׳ the S. may exercise its functions in Palestine and outside. Ib. ס׳ ההורגת וכ׳ a S. that executes capital punishment (more than) once in seven years. Ib. 9 (ref. to Deut. XVII, 6) שלא תהא ס׳ שומעת וכ׳ this intimates that the S. must not hear the testimony from the mouth of an interpreter. Snh. 63ᵃ לס׳ שהרגו וכ׳ that a S. which puts a person to death must not taste food during the entire day of execution; a. v. fr.—Pl. סַנְהֶדְרָיוֹת, סַנְהֶדְרָאוֹת, סַנֶּדְרָ׳. Ib. I, 5 אין עושין ס׳ לשבטים וכ׳ supreme courts for tribes (provincial courts, Small Sanhedrin) can be instituted only by decree of the court of seventy-one; Sifra K’dosh. ch. VIII, Par. 10 סנדריות של ישראל; Yalk. Lev. 619 סנהד׳ של שבטים, opp. ס׳ גדולה. Snh. 16ᵇ כנדראות (also in Chald. diction); a. fr.—Sanhedrin, name of a treatise, of the Order of N’ziḳin, of Mishnah, Toseftaand Talmud Babli a. Y’rushalmi.