Strong's Number G4523

Transliteration:

Saddoukaios{sad-doo-kah'-yos}

Word Origin:

probably from 4524

TDNT:

7:35,992

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Usage in the KJV:

Sadducees 14

Total: 14

Definition:

Sadducees = "the righteous"

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