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ἐκκλησία

ekklesia

ek-klay-see'-ah

Strong's 1890 spelling: ekklēsía

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)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

assembly, church.

  • 113
    occurrencesin the New Testament
  • 17 of 27
    New Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 26
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 113 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 26

  • ἐκκλησίας21
  • ἐκκλησίᾳ17
  • ἐκκλησίαν13
  • ἐκκλησίαις10
  • ἐκκλησία7
  • ἐκκλησίαι7
  • ἐκκλησίαις.¶4
  • ἐκκλησίαις·3
  • ἐκκλησίαν,3
  • ἐκκλησίας,3
  • ἐκκλησιῶν3
  • ἐκκλησίᾳ,2

and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 18

  • church46
  • churches21
  • churches.9
  • church.8
  • church,6
  • [the] church5
  • church;3
  • churches;3
  • [the] church,2
  • assembly2
  • [of the] churches,1
  • [the] church.1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 8

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular26
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular24
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular19
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural18
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular9
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural7
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural7
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • N-GSF · 26
  • N-DSF · 24
  • N-ASF · 19
  • N-DPF · 18
  • N-NSF · 9
  • N-GPF · 7
  • N-NPF · 7
  • N-APF · 3

All 113, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Acts carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Matthew3 occurrences
Acts22 occurrences
Romans5 occurrences
1 Corinthians22 occurrences
2 Corinthians9 occurrences
Galatians3 occurrences
Ephesians9 occurrences
Philippians2 occurrences
Colossians4 occurrences
1 Thessalonians2 occurrences
2 Thessalonians2 occurrences
1 Timothy3 occurrences
Philemon1 occurrence
Hebrews2 occurrences
James1 occurrence
3 John3 occurrences
Revelation20 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).