Assertion: synagogue | /r/HasProperty | house
Facets:
value: to the greater number of jews
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: It seems likely that the oldest synagogues both in Israel and abroad seem to be houses or to have developed out of houses, and this may be true in Palestine in New Testament days, for in Mark 6:3 and Luke 13:10-17, the women do not seem to sit in galleries, as they probably do in the basilica-type synagogues of later times.
text: To the greater number of Jews the synagogue was a teaching organization and its house a school (Yiddish still refers to it as schul), but to the Gentiles of the Graeco-Roman world it was a school of philosophy.