assemblage of persons

prop., ; a bringing together of things, of harvest; a gathering in of money. a collection Of persons, (Polyb.); a collecting, assembling (MM, xxiv; Deiss., , 101 ff.): ; esp. of a Jewish religious assembly, : , , al.; of a Christian assembly, . By meton., of the building in which the assembly is held, : , , al. (cf. Cremer, s.v. ) an assembly a synagogue a synagogue LAE Re 2:9 3:9 Lk 12:11 Ac 9:2 Ja 2:2 Mt 10:17 Mk 1:21 ἐκκλησία

an assemblage of persons; specially, a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place); by analogy, a Christian church

assembly, congregation, synagogue