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ἐκκλησίας (ekklesias)

ἐκκλησίας is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκκλησία, meaning “assembly; church”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 549 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.31.4: καταστάσης δὲ ἐκκλησίας ἐς ἀντιλογίαν ἦλθον, καὶ οἱ μὲν Κερκυραῖοι ἔλεξαν τοιάδε.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 28: … α, δυσμαχώτατος τοῖς ὑπεναντίοις, φύλαξ πατρῴων θεσμῶν, νεωτεροποιίας ἐχθρός· ἐν ἑαυτῷ δεικνὺς τὸ παλαιὸν τῆς Ἐκκλησίας σχῆμα, οἷον ἀπό τινος ἱεροπρεποῦς εἰκόνος, τῆς ἀρχαίας καταστάσεως, τὸ εἶδος τῆς ὑπʼ αὐτὸν ἐκκλησίας διαμορφῶ …

All forms of ἐκκλησία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.