- Transliteration: Saddoukaios

- Phonetic: sad-doo-kah'-yos

- Definition: Sadducees = "the righteous"

1. 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:

a. resurrection of the body

b. immortality of the soul

c. existence of spirits and angels

d. divine predestination, affirmed free will

- Origin: probably from G4524" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4524

- TDNT entry: 07:36,0

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: Probably from G4524" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4524; a Sadducaean (that is Tsadokian) or follower of a certain heretical Israelite: - Sadducee.