Lexicons wrote:LATIN
ecclesiae
universal gathering of people
GREEK
????????? - ekklesia
a gathered meeting; an assembly
(and last but not least:)
HEBREW
Congregation translated from various words like: ???? (maqhel), ??? (qahal), ???? (`atsarah), ??? (`edah), ???? (mow`ed)
That bring to attention the definition thereof:
assemblage; a multitude, group, company or congregation, tabernacle of testimony
Word: ????
Pronounc: mak-hale'
Strong: #H4721
Transliter: maqhel
or (feminine) maqhelah mak-hay-law'; from 6950; an assembly:--congregation.
Word: ???
Pronounc: kaw-hawl'
Strong: #H6951
Transliter: qahal
from 6950; assemblage (usually concretely):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude.
Word: ????
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: ????
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: ???
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.
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Word: ???
Pronounc: ay-daw'
Strong: #H5713
Transliter: `edah
feminine of 5707 in its techn. sense; testimony:-- testimony, witness. Compare 5712.
Word: ???
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: ??
Pronounc: ayd
Strong: #H5707
Transliter: `ed
contracted from 5749 ; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince:--witness.
Word: ???
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.