[B-Greek] Perseus Synonyms? (EKKLHSIA and SULLOGOS?)

Bryant J. Williams III bjwvmw at com-pair.net
Thu Jun 12 14:15:13 EDT 2008


Dear Craig,

I would suggest you see the following article in NIDNTT, Vol. 1, pp. 291-307,
Church, Synagogue, EKKLHSIA, by L. Coenen. This is especially true of the use of
EKKLHSIA and SUNAGWGH and their translations of QAHAL and )EDAH in the LXX. It
is interesting that the Hebrew )EDAH is never translated by EKKLHSIA, but by
SUNAGWGH. EKKLHSIA and SUNAGWGH translate QAHAL.

In the NT, with the exception of James 2:2 (SUNAGWGH), EKKLHSIA is always used
of the meetings and community gatherings of the followers of Jesus. This is
especially significant since the early followers were Jews. EKKLHSIA is also
used of the riotous crowd assembled in Ephesus (Acts 19:39-40). With the
exception of Mt 16:18; 18:17, it is never used in the Gospels.

En Xristwi,

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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> Further to my post below, perhaps I should explain a little of the background
to my question. I am looking at the use of EKKLHSIA in the NT. It was suggested
to me that if the Christians just wanted to use a Greek term to mean "meeting"
or "assembly", then they could have used SULLOGOS instead. But they never did
(at least in the NT), suggesting that EKKLHSIA becomes more of technical than a
generic term, or else that it is distinctly better for describing the Christian
meeting than SULLOGOS would be.
>
> In the Perseus it notes that EKKLHSIA regularly appears with SULLOGOS. I'm
guessing for the same reason the LSJ entries suggest that EKKLHSIA is more
specific than SULLOGOS, based on Th.2.22, Pl.Grg.456b, etc, and so that SULLOGOS
would perhaps not be used to describe the official EKKLHSIA. But if you were the
first Christians, and wanted to pick a word to describe the new Christian
gatherings, could SULLOGOS have been used as readily as EKKLHSIA?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Craig Johnson
> Brisbane, Australia
> Blog: http://bloggledegook.blogspot.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: newsgroupstuff [mailto:newsgroupstuff at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2008 7:49 PM
> > To: 'b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org'
> > Subject: Perseus Synonyms? (EKKLHSIA and SULLOGOS?)
> >
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm just wondering if someone can help explain something I
> > came across.
> >
> > I wanted to compare two words: EKKLHSIA and SULLOGOS. I
> > expected them to be synonyms, but if I look up either on
> > Perseus, neither comes up for the other as a synonym. Is
> > there something very different about the meanings of these
> > two words? Does anyone know how the computer of Perseus
> > determines synonyms, and why these don't come up as synonymns?
> >
> > Here are the LSJ definitions from Perseus, and from this
> > there seems some overlap in the terms:
> >
> > ἐκκλησί-α, ἡ, (ἔκκλητος) assembly duly summoned, less general
> > than σύλλογος, Th.2.22, Pl.Grg.456b, etc. ; applied to the
> > Homeric Assemblies, Arist.Pol.1285a11 ; to the Samian
> > Assembly, Hdt.3.142 ; to the Spartan, Th.1.87 ; to the
> > meeting of the Amphictyons at Delphi, Aeschin.3.124 ; at
> > Athens, ἐ. κύριαι, opp. σύγκλητοι, Arist.Ath.43.4 ; κυρία ἐ.,
> > at Amorgos, IG12(7).237.46 ; ἐ. συναγείρειν, συνάγειν,
> > συλλέγειν, ἀθροίζειν, call an assembly, Hdt.3.142, Th.2.60,
> > 8.97, X.HG1.6.8 ; ἐ. ποιεῖν Ar.Eq.746, Th.1.139,al. ; ἐ.
> > ποιεῖν τινί Ar.Ach.169 ; διδόναι τινί Plb.4.34.6 ; ἐ.
> > γίγνεται an assembly is held, Th.6.8 ; καταστάσης ἐ. Id.1.31
> > ; ἦν ἐ. τοῖς στρατηγοῖς And.1.2 ; ἐ. διαλύειν, ἀναστῆσαι,
> > dissolve it, Th.8.69 (Pass.),X.HG2.4.42 ; ἀφιέναι Plu.TG16 ;
> > ἐ. ἀνεβλήθη was adjourned, Th.5.45 ; ἐ. περί τινος Ar. Av.1030, etc.
> >
> > σύλλογ-ος, ὁ, assembly, concourse, meeting of persons,
> > whether legal or riotous, ς. ἐγίνετο Hdt.8.74; Ἀχαιῶν ς.,
> > name of a play by Sophocles; ξ. γυναικοπληθεῖς E.Alc.951; ς.
> > στρατεύματος Id.IA514, cf. 825; ἐν θεοῖς ς. σοῦ πέρι ἔσται
> > Id.Hel.878; ς. ποιῆσαι Th.1.67, 4.114 (cf. ἐκκλησία); ς.
> > ποιέεσθαι Hdt.7.8 init., 8.24, cf. E.Heracl.335; ς. διαλύειν
> > Hdt.7.10.δ'; of the people, διαλύεσθαι ἐκ τοῦ ς. Id.3.73; ς.
> > σχολαστικοί Arist.Pol.1313b3; συμπόσια καὶ ἄλλοι ς. Phld.Mus.
> > p.110K.; ὁ ς. ὁ Ἁλικαρνασσέων SIG45.1 (Halic., v B.C.), cf.
> > 278.3 (Priene, iv B.C.), al.; at Athens, of any special
> > public meeting or assembly, opp. the common ἐκκλησία,
> > Th.2.22, Pl.Lg.764a; ἐκκλησίᾳ καὶ ἄλλῳ ς. παντί, ὅστις ἂν
> > πολιτικὸς ς. γένηται Id.Grg.452e, cf. X.An.5.7.2, D.19.122;
> > freq. of a muster of forces, X.Cyr.6.2.11, al.; so ς. νεῶν
> > And.3.38; ς. θεραπηΐης a medical consultation, Hp. Praec.13.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Craig Johnson
> > Brisbane, Australia
> > Blog: http://bloggledegook.blogspot.com/
> >
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