Looking for a correct Greek translation

[banjo]

http://forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=2414331#post2414331

post #5

Acts 9:31 reads: “So the Church throughout all Judea…etc”. Regarding the phrase “Church throughout” cited above—In my Nestle-Aland Greek-English New Testament the Greek reads ekklesia kath holis. As near as I can find kata (kath?), a preposition, means “throughout” when used with the accusative.
As it is, I’m not prepared to “hang my hat” on poster #5’s claim that this translates as “Catholic Church”.
This wants more knowledge of Greek than I possess so if someone here can help out it would be much appreciated.

 

[runandsew]

I would say that this is not a good argument because catholic is the combination of those two words, but in Acts, they are not combined but separate. If you could combine two separate words in a sentence, then you could make a lot of things mean something that they were not intending.

What Does Catholic Mean?
By Steve Ray

Catholic comes from the Greek katholikos, the combination of two words, kata (concerning), and holos (whole). According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the word catholic comes from a Greek word meaning “regarding the whole,” or, more simply, “universal” or “general.” The word church comes from the Greek ecclesia, which means “those called out,” as in those summoned out of the world at large to form a distinct society. So the Catholic Church is made up of those called out and gathered into the universal society founded by Christ.

From the Blue Letter Bible

Act 9:31 ¶ Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

Lexicon / Concordance for Act 9:31

English Strong’s Greek (Root form) Tense

Then [3303] men
(with Strongs #) [3767] oun
had [2192] echo
the churches [1577] ekklesia
rest [1515] eirene
throughout [2596] kata
all [3650] holos
Judaea [2449] Ioudaia
and [2532] kai
Galilee [1056] Galilaia
and [2532] kai
Samaria, [4540] Samareia
and were edified; [3618] oikodomeo
and [2532] kai
walking in [4198] poreuomai
the fear [5401] phobos
of the Lord, [2962] kurios
and [2532] kai
in the comfort [3874] paraklesis
of the Holy [40] hagios
Ghost, [4151] pneuma
were multiplied. [4129] plethuno