The hebrew word for church...?

Question

Does anyone know what church is in Hebrew? Someone said it's like "kahol" or something...? And when is it mentioned first in the Bible?

Answer 1

The Hebrew term for "church" (Christian church) is Knesiyah [כנסיה- kne-si-YA].

It does not appear in the bible as it is a Christian term, and the bible was written long before there were any churches out there.

The literal meaning of the word "kahal" [קהל- ka-HAL] is gather of people. It is often translated as "community", "public", and in Modern Hebrew- "audience".

Answer 2

Hebrew Church

Answer 3

As a jew I am not aware of a word for church. since it is a Christian term. Here is some history on the word:
The word “church”. This word does not exist in any Greek manuscript of the New Testament. Though the word “church” is indeed found in modern Bibles it is due in part to the manipulation of the first translations into common tongue overseen by the Catholics of the Roman Empire. The Greek “eklisia” is in fact the word which has been replaced by “church”.
The word eklisia means “called out” and is actually a combination of two Greek words “ek” meaning out and “klaeo” meaning call. Eklisia means therefore those who have been called out of the earth by God into His kingdom.

Church is a word which is the corrupted form of the Greek “kuriakos” which means belonging to the Lord. The root for kuriakos is “kurios” which simply means “supreme in authority”.

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The hebrew word for church...?
Does anyone know what church is in Hebrew? Someone said it's like "kahol" or something...? And when is it mentioned first in the Bible?

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Hebrew: knesiyah [כנסיה] Arabic: kanisa [كَنيسة]

Answer 6

The Holman Bible Dictionary, explains the background of the word church.
" Church is the English translation of the Greek word ' ekklesia '. The use of the Greek term prior to the emergence of the Christian Church is important as two streams of meaning flow from the history of it's usage into the New Testament understanding of church.
First, the Greek term, which basically means 'called out' was commonly used to indicate an 'assembly of citizens' of a Greek city and is so used in (Acts 19:32,39). The citizens who were quite conscious of their privileged status over against slaves and non-citizens were called to the assembly by a herald and dealt...with matters of common concern. When the early Christians understood themselves as constituting a church, no doubt exists that they perceived themselves as 'called out' by God in Jesus Christ for a 'special purpose' and that their status was a privileged one in Jesus Christ (Eph. 2:19).
Second, the Greek term was used more than, I believe, 100 times in Greek translation of the Old Testament in common use in the time of Jesus. The Hebrew term (qahal) meant simply 'assembly' and could be used in a variety of ways, referring for example to an assembling of prophets ( 1Sam. 19:20), soldiers (Numbers 22:4), or the people of God ( Deut. 9:10). The use of the term in the Old Testament in referring to the people of God is important for understanding the term 'church' in the New Testament.
The first Christians were Jews who used the Greek translation of the Old Testament. For them to use a self-designation that was common in the Old Testament for the people of God reveals their understanding of the continuity that links the Old and New Testaments. The early Christians understood themselves as the people of God who had revealed Himself in the Old Testament (Heb. 1:1-2), as the true children of Israel (Rom. 2:28-29) with Abraham as their father (Rom. 4:1-25), and as the people of the New Covenant prophesied in the Old Testament (Heb. 8:1-13).
As a consequence of this broad background of meaning in the Greek and Old Testament worlds, the term 'church' is used in the New Testament of a local congregation of 'called out Christians, such as the 'Church of God which is at Corinth' ( 1 Cor. 1:2), and also of the entire people of God, such as in the affirmation that Christ is 'the Head over all things to the church, Which is the Body' ( Eph. 1:22-23)(emphasis added).
So the earliest roots of the church was 'ancient Israel' which was also 'God's holy people'. Moses told the Israelites, " For you are the holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth" ( Deut. 14:2). They were God's congregation (Acts 7:38) or 'Church' (KJV).

Answer 7

The Jews did not have churches.
They had synagogues.
It is not just to say the two are one and the same.

Answer 8

Koneseh

Answer 9

there is no biblical hebrew word for "church" as the notion of "church" is post biblical.
the closest word that sounds like "kahol" is either "kahal" -- congregation or "kohol" -- alcohol.

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Answer 10

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