How to pronounce“ekklesia”in English
That really did refer to the voting body of the citizens, or the gathered citizens together.
Ekklesia is a Greek word, it just means "the calling out." Ekklesia therefore is what you would call the assembly, the Athenian Assembly,
who would debate things and vote on things that the boule, the council, would put forward for a debate or a vote.
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Definitions of “ekklesia”
Alternative spelling of ecclesia.
“As there is one sun but many rays of the sun, there is one ekklesia with many rays (ekklesiai). The elders in these ekklesiai got no consecration. They were not office-holders.”