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GreekG1577Noun (Feminine)

ἐκκλησία

ekklēsia

112Occurrences
G1577Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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)

from a compound of G1537 (ἐκ) and a derivative of G2564 (καλέω);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.prop., an assembly of citizens regularly convened (in Thuc., ii, 22, opposite to σύλλογος, a concourse)
2.In LXX of the assembly, congregation, community of Israel (
3.NT, esp. of an assembly or company of Christians, a (the) church
(a)of gatherings for worship
(b)of local communities
(with)of the whole body of Christians
Synonyms
συναγωγή, which see (see Tr., Syn., §i; DB, i, 426; Hort, Ecclesia, esp. 4ff., 107ff.; Hamilton, People of God, ii, 37ff.; reff. s.vv. "Church," "Congregation," in DB and DCG; Cremer, 332).
LXX: chiefly for קָהָל, otherwise for one of its cogn. forms

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

ἐκκλησία appears 112 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Acts
22
1 Corinthians
21
Revelation
19
2 Corinthians
9
Ephesians
9
Romans
5
Colossians
4
1 Timothy
3

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 1:2BSB

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

1 Thessalonians 2:14BSB

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

Acts 12:5BSB

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

Colossians 4:16BSB

After this letter has been read among you, make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.

Revelation 1:11BSB

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.