Bible word study
Ekklesia (Strong’s G1577): Meaning in the Bible
Ekklesia (ἐκκλησία) is the Greek word numbered G1577 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated assembly, church..
- Original wordἐκκλησία
- Transliterationekklēsía
- Pronunciationek-klay-see'-ah
- Strong’s numberG1577
- LanguageGreek
The full Strong’s definition
Derivation. from a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564;
How the King James Bible translates it
And Christ
The word means an assembly called out and gathered. Christians believe it is not a club you join but a people Christ gathers to himself, his own body in the world.
The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.
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