How to Pronounce Sanhedrin

san-HEE-drihn

Sanhedrin is pronounced san-HEE-drihn: three syllables, stress on the second. Also heard: San-HEE-drin, san-HEE-druhn.

What does Sanhedrin mean?

Sanhedrin means “sitting together”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

What is Sanhedrin?

(from the Greek sunedrion, “a council-chamber” commonly but in correctly Sanhedrim), the supreme council of the Jewish people in the time of Christ and earlier.

Adapted from Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863), public domain.

Also pronounced

San-HEE-drin
san-HEE-druhn

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