Assembly, the called-out gathering — in secular Greek a city's voting assembly (Acts 19 uses this very word for the Ephesus RIOT), in the Greek Bible the assembly of Israel (qahal). No building, no institution. Tyndale therefore rendered it 'congregation' — and King James's Rule 3 ordered his translators to keep 'the old ecclesiastical words… the word Church not to be translated Congregation.' This translation reads CONGREGATION (with Tyndale, and the NWT after him); 'church' descends from a different word entirely — kyriakon, 'the Lord's house' — and carries the later building with it. ⚠ Jesus himself says the word only twice in this Gospel — and nowhere else in any Gospel. First at Matthew 16:18, 'on this rock I will build my ekklēsia,' answered to Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi; then at Matthew 18:17, 'tell it to the ekklēsia,' inside a three-step procedure for a quarrel between two people. The second occurrence is the one that constrains the first: whatever the word means at 18:17, it has to be something small enough that a man can stand up in it and describe a private grievance. The KJV tradition prints 'church' in both places, which imports an institution into a domestic argument. → first discussed at Rev 1:4