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MainId: 001589000000000
Version: 0
HasAramaic: False
InLXX: True
AlphaPos: ε
StrongCodes: G1577
BaseForms:
BaseFormID: 001589001000000
PartsOfSpeech: noun, f.
Inflections:
Lemma: ἐκκλησία
BaseFormIndex: 1
Realizations: -ας
RelatedLemmas: {'Word': 'καλέω', 'Meanings': []}
LEXMeanings:
LEXID: 001589001001000
LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
LEXEntryCode: 11.32
LEXIndent: 0
LEXDomains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes
LEXSubDomains: Socio-Religious
LEXSenses:
LanguageCode: en
LastEdited: 2022-11-29 16:55:40
DefinitionShort: a congregation of Christians, implying interacting membership
Glosses: ['congregation', 'church']
Comments: Though some persons have tried to see in the term ἐκκλησία a more or less literal meaning of ‘called-out ones,’ this type of etymologizing is not warranted either by the meaning of ἐκκλησία in NT times or even by its earlier usage. The term ἐκκλησία was in common usage for several hundred years before the Christian era and was used to refer to an assembly of persons constituted by well-defined membership. In general Greek usage it was normally a socio-political entity based upon citizenship in a city-state (see {L:ἐκκλησία
LEXReferences: MAT 18:17, MAT 18:17, ACTs 5:11, ACTs 8:1, ACTs 8:3, ACTs 11:22, ACTs 11:26, ACTs 12:5, ACTs 13:1, ACTs 14:23, ACTs 14:27, ACTs 15:3, ACTs 15:4, ACTs 15:22, ACTs 15:41, ACTs 16:5, ACTs 18:22, ACTs 20:17, ACTs 20:28, ROM 16:1, ROM 16:4, ROM 16:5, ROM 16:16, ROM 16:23, 1COR 1:2, 1COR 4:17, 1COR 6:4, 1COR 7:17, 1COR 11:16, 1COR 14:4, 1COR 14:5, 1COR 14:12, 1COR 14:19, 1COR 14:23, 1COR 14:28, 1COR 14:33, 1COR 14:34, 1COR 14:35, 1COR 16:1, 1COR 16:19, 1COR 16:19, 2COR 1:1, 2COR 8:1, 2COR 8:18, 2COR 8:19, 2COR 8:23, 2COR 8:24, 2COR 11:8, 2COR 11:28, 2COR 12:13, GAL 1:2, GAL 1:22, PHP 4:15, COL 4:15, COL 4:16, 1TH 1:1, 1TH 2:14, 2TH 1:1, 2TH 1:4, 1TIM 5:16, PHM 1:2, HEB 12:23, YAC 5:14, 3YHN 1:6, 3YHN 1:9, 3YHN 1:10, REV 1:4, REV 1:11, REV 1:20, REV 1:20, REV 2:1, REV 2:7, REV 2:8, REV 2:11, REV 2:12, REV 2:17, REV 2:18, REV 2:23, REV 2:29, REV 3:1, REV 3:6, REV 3:7, REV 3:13, REV 3:14, REV 3:22, REV 22:16
LEXID: 001589001002000
LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
LEXEntryCode: 11.33
LEXIndent: 0
LEXDomains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes
LEXSubDomains: Socio-Religious
LEXSenses:
LanguageCode: en
LastEdited: 2022-11-29 16:55:40
DefinitionShort: the totality of congregations of Christians
Glosses: church
LEXReferences: MAT 16:18, ACTs 9:31, ACTs 12:1, 1COR 6:4, 1COR 10:32, 1COR 11:22, 1COR 12:28, 1COR 15:9, GAL 1:13, EPH 1:22, EPH 3:10, EPH 3:21, EPH 5:23, EPH 5:24, EPH 5:25, EPH 5:27, EPH 5:29, EPH 5:32, PHP 3:6, COL 1:18, COL 1:24, 1TIM 3:5, 1TIM 3:15, HEB 12:23
LEXID: 001589001003000
LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
LEXEntryCode: 11.78
LEXIndent: 0
LEXDomains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes
LEXSubDomains: Socio-Political
LEXSenses:
LanguageCode: en
LastEdited: 2022-11-29 16:55:40
DefinitionShort: a group of citizens assembled for socio-political activities
Glosses: ['assembly', 'gathering']
Comments: It is possible that in ἐκκλησία[c] there is somewhat more focus upon the people being together as a legal assembly, while in the case of δῆμος the emphasis is merely upon a meeting of citizens. But in the NT one cannot distinguish clearly between the meanings of these two words.|ἐκκλησία[c] and δῆμος may be rendered in some languages as ‘a meeting of the people who belonged to that place’ or ‘… who were inhabitants of that town’ or ‘… whose homes were in that town.’
LEXReferences: ACTs 7:38, ACTs 19:32, ACTs 19:39, ACTs 19:40, 1COR 11:18, HEB 2:12, HEB 12:23