ἐκκλησία: Difference between revisions

|astxt=[[ἐκκλησία]], -ας, ἡ (< ἐκ-[[καλέω]]), [in LXX [[chiefly]] for קָהָל, [[otherwise]] for [[one]] of its cogn. forms;] <br /><b class="num">1.</b>[[prop]]., an [[assembly]] of citizens [[regularly]] convened (in Thuc., ii, 22, opp. to [[σύλλογος]], a [[concourse]]): Ac 19:32, 39 41. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>In LXX of the [[assembly]], [[congregation]], [[community]] of Israel (De 4:10 23:2, al.): Ac 7:38, He 2:12 (LXX). <br /><b class="num">3.</b>NT, esp. of an [[assembly]] or [[company]] of Christians, a (the) [[church]];<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>of gatherings for [[worship]]:I Co 11:18 14:19, 34 35; <br /><b class="num">(b)</b>of [[local]] communities: Ac 8:3, I Co 4:17; [[with]] [[name]] added, Ac 8:1, Ro 16:1, I Th 1:1, al.; pl., Ac 15:41, I Co 7:17; τ. Χριστοῦ, Ro 16:16; τ. Ἀσίας, I Co 16:19; τ. ἁγίων, I Co 14:33; εἰπο]ν τ. ἐκκλησίᾳ, Mt 18:17 ([[but]] v. Hort, Ecclesia, 10); of a [[house]]-[[congregation]] (DB, i, 431a), Ro 16:5, I Co 16:19, Col 4:15, Phm 2; <br /><b class="num">(c)</b>of the [[whole]] [[body]] of Christians: Mt 16:18, I Co 12:28, Eph 1:22, Phl 3:6, al.; τ. θεοῦ, Ac 20:28 (Κυρίου, T, R, mg.), I Co 15:9, Ga 1:13, I Ti 3:15; ἐ. προτοτόκων ἀπογεγραμμένων ἐν οὐρανοῖς, He 12:23. SYN.: [[συναγωγή]], q.v. (v. 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).