Σαδδουκαῖος
Saddoukaios
Sadducee
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word Σαδδουκαῖος (Saddoukaios) is a proper noun referring to a specific group of people. It is derived from the lemma Sadducee, which suggests that this word is a designation for a particular sect or faction. The semantic domain indicates that it is a proper name, specifically referring to a person or group of people. In the context of the Bible, the word Σαδδουκαῖος appears 14 times, which suggests that the Sadducees played a significant role in the narrative. The frequency of its occurrence implies that the Sadducees were a notable group within the Jewish community, and their interactions with other characters, such as Jesus, are of particular interest.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
14 total occurrences across the text
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 16:1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Matthew 16:6Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:11How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:12Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Matthew 22:23On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
Matthew 22:34But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
Mark 12:18Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,
Luke 20:27Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
Acts 4:1As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
Acts 5:17But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
Acts 23:7When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.
Acts 23:8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.