Numbers 15:15Exodus 12:19Numbers 9:14Deuteronomy 23:1-3Exodus 12:19Numbers 9:1415:15Numbers 10:3Exodus 12:27Numbers 25:6Joel 2:15Exodus 19:7,8Numbers 10:4Exodus 3:1612:2117:524:1

After the conquest of Canaan, the people were assembled only on occasions of the highest national importance (Judges 20; 2 Chronicles 30:5; 34:29; 1 Samuel 10:17; 2 Samuel 5:1-5; 1 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 11:19; 21:24; 23:30 ). In subsequent times the congregation was represented by the Sanhedrim; and the name synagogue, applied in the Septuagint version exclusively to the congregation, came to be used to denote the places of worship established by the Jews. (See CHURCH .)

In Acts 13:43 , where alone it occurs in the New Testament, it is the same word as that rendered "synagogue" (q.v.) in ver. 42, and is so rendered in ver. 43 in RSV