DAVAR :: View topic - Congregation / Church?

According to the Scriptures, it is not a church that makes the people but rather the body of people together as one that make it what it is: hopefully a Congregation body with Christ as the head of course.. As a real church body can not make itself endure forever without Christ the creator for that matter. Thus let us simply look at the original tongue's roots thereof:

Lexicons wrote:

LATIN
ecclesiae
universal gathering of people

GREEK
εκκλησιας - ekklesia
a gathered meeting; an assembly

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HEBREW
Congregation translated from various words like: מקהל (maqhel), קהל (qahal), עצרה (`atsarah), עדה (`edah), מועד (mow`ed)
That bring to attention the definition of:
assemblage; a multitude, group, company or congregation, tabernacle of testimony

Word: מקהל
Pronounc: mak-hale'
Strong: #H4721
Transliter: maqhel
or (feminine) maqhelah mak-hay-law'; from 6950; an assembly:--congregation.

Word: קהל
Pronounc: kaw-hawl'
Strong: #H6951
Transliter: qahal
from 6950; assemblage (usually concretely):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude.

Word: עצרה
Pronounc: ats-aw-raw'
Strong: #H6116
Transliter: `atsarah
or matsereth ats-eh'-reth; from 6113; an assembly, especially on a festival or holiday:--(solemn) assembly (meeting).

Word: מועד
Pronounc: mo-ade'
Strong: #H4150
Transliter: mow`ed
or moled mo-ade'; or (feminine) moweadah (2 Chronicles 8:13) mo-aw-daw'; from 3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand):--appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).

Word: עדה
Pronounc: ay-daw'
Strong: #H5712
Transliter: `edah
feminine of 5707 in the original sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare 5713.

Code:

Word: עדה
Pronounc: ay-daw'
Strong: #H5713
Transliter: `edah
feminine of 5707 in its techn. sense; testimony:-- testimony, witness. Compare 5712.
Word: עדה
Pronounc: ay-daw'
Strong: #H5712
Transliter: `edah
feminine of 5707 in the original sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare 5713.
Word: עד
Pronounc: ayd
Strong: #H5707
Transliter: `ed
contracted from 5749 ; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince:--witness.
Word: עוד
Pronounc: ood
Strong: #H5749
Transliter: `uwd
a primitive root; to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication):--admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call (take) to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning, (bear, call to, give, take to) witness.

The Latin expresses the peoples' universal gathering throughout the world, the Greek more stresses the people's assembly, and the Hebrew it's tabernacle of testimony importance for all the people to come together as one in Iesu the Messiahs.