Greek: ekklesia = edah + cahal  EKKLESIA/EDAH MEETING IN A HOUSE

Acts 8:3 “Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house”

Romans 16:5 “also greet the church that is in their house.”

Romans 16:23 “Gaius, host to me and to the whole church” (Corinth)

I Corinthians 16:19 “the church that is in their house” (Prisca & Aquila at Ephesus)

Colossians 4:15 “Nympha and the church that is in her house.” (city near Laodicia and Collosse)

Philemon 2 “the church in your house” (Philemon's house in Collosse)

EKKLESIA/EDAH IN A CITY

Acts 8:1; 11:22 “the church which was in Jerusalem”

Acts 13:1 “in Antioch, in the church that was there”

Acts 18:22 “having landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church”

Acts 20:17 “he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church”

Romans 16:1 “the church which is at Cenchrea”

I Corinthians 1:2; II Corinthians 1:1 “the church of God which is at Corinth”

Colossians 4:16 “Have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans”

I Thessalonians 1:1; II Thessalonians 1:1 “the church of the Thessalonians”

Revelation 1:1 “the seven churches which are in Asia”

EKKLESIA/EDAH IN A PROVINCE

I Corinthians 16:1; Galatians 1:2 “as I directed the churches of Galatia”

I Corinthians 16:19 “The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.”

II Corinthians 8:1 “the churches of Macedonia”

EKKLESIA/EDAH IN A LARGE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

Acts 9:31 “the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria”

Galatians 1:22; I Thessalonians 2:14 “the churches of Judea which were in Christ”

II Corinthians 8:1 “which has been given in the churches of Macedonia”

ALL EKKLESIA/EDAH

The New Testament uses the Greek word ekklesia (sometimes translated church or assembly, congregation, Hebrew: edah, cahal) to denote the people gathered together in Christ, as with…

Ephesians 1:22-23 “And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the ekklesia/edah, which is His body; the fulness of Him who fills all in all.”

Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the ekklesia/edah and gave Himself up for her;”

Ephesians 5:29 “for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the ekklesia/edah,”

Colossians 1:25 “of this ekklesia/edah I was made minister according to the stewardship of God bestowed on me…”

I Thessalonians 2:14 “For you, brethren, became imitators of the ekklesia/edah of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea…”

III John 1:6 “and they bear witness to your love before the ekklesia/edah…”