Strong's #1577: ekklesia (pronounced ek-klay-see'-ah)
from a compound of 1537 and a derivative of 2564; a calling out, i.e. (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both):--assembly, church.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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ekklēsia
1) a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly
1a) an assembly of the people convened at the public place of the council for the purpose of deliberating
1b) the assembly of the Israelites
1c) any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance, tumultuously
1d) in a Christian sense
1d1) an assembly of Christians gathered for worship in a religious meeting
1d2) a company of Christian, or of those who, hoping for eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, observe their own religious rites, hold their own religious meetings, and manage their own affairs, according to regulations prescribed for the body for order' s sake
1d3) those who anywhere, in a city, village, constitute such a company and are united into one body
1d4) the whole body of Christians scattered throughout the earth
1d5) the assembly of faithful Christians already dead and received into heaven
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564
Citing in TDNT: 3:501, 394
Usage:
This word is used 116 times:
1 Corinthians 14:35: "for women to speak in the church."
1 Corinthians 15:9: "because I persecuted the church of God."
1 Corinthians 16:1: "as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do"
1 Corinthians 16:19: "The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla"
1 Corinthians 16:19: "the Lord, with the church that is in their house."
2 Corinthians 1:1: "Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth,"
2 Corinthians 8:1: "of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;"
2 Corinthians 8:18: "throughout all the churches;"
2 Corinthians 8:19: "chosen of the churches to travel with us with this"
2 Corinthians 8:23: "our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ."
2 Corinthians 8:24: "and before the churches, the proof of your"
2 Corinthians 11:8: "I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service."
2 Corinthians 11:28: "the care of all the churches."
2 Corinthians 12:13: "ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself"
Galatians 1:2: "which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:"
Galatians 1:13: "beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted"
Galatians 1:22: "unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ:"
Ephesians 1:22: "over all things to the church,"
Ephesians 3:10: "places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,"
Ephesians 3:21: "be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout"
Ephesians 5:23: "Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior"
Ephesians 5:24: "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the"
Ephesians 5:25: "also loved the church, and gave himself for"
Ephesians 5:27: "it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or"
Ephesians 5:29: "the Lord the church:"
Ephesians 5:32: "Christ and the church."
Philippians 3:6: "zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in"
Philippians 4:15: "from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning"
Colossians 1:18: "of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn"
Colossians 1:24: "for his body's sake, which is the church:"
Colossians 4:15: "Nymphas, and the church which is in his house."
Colossians 4:16: "also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise"
1 Thessalonians 1:1: "and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father"
1 Thessalonians 2:14: "became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are"
2 Thessalonians 1:1: "and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our"
2 Thessalonians 1:4: "you in the churches of God for your patience"
1 Timothy 3:5: "house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)"
1 Timothy 3:15: "of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and"
1 Timothy 5:16: "and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows"
Philemon 1:2: "fellow soldier, and to the church in thy house:"
Hebrews 2:12: "brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee."
Hebrews 12:23: "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and"
James 5:14: "let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over"
3 John 1:6: "of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort,"
3 John 1:9: "I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth"
3 John 1:10: "them that would, and casteth them out of the church."
Revelation 1:4: "John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace"
Revelation 1:11: "a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in"
Revelation 1:20: "the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks"
Revelation 1:20: "thou sawest are the seven churches."
