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κοινόςStrong’s G2839

koinos

Appears in 12 verses of the New Testament

In short

Koinos is the Greek word usually translated “common”, “unclean” and “defiled”. It appears in 12 verses of the New Testament.

“To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.”
Titus 1:4 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “common”, “unclean” and “defiled”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • common 4
  • unclean 3
  • in common 2
  • with defiled 1
  • with unsanctified 1
  • ordinary 1
  • shared 1
  • unsanctified 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 5
  • Mark 2
  • Romans 1
  • Titus 1
  • Hebrews 1
  • Jude 1

7 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 12 verses, by book
Mark 2
7:27:5
Romans 1
14:14
Titus 1
1:4
Hebrews 1
10:29
Jude 1
1:3
Revelation 1
21:27
Greek dictionary

κοινός koinos · common

κοινός, -ή, -όν [in LXX: Pro.1:14 (אֶחָד) Pro.21:9 25:24 (חֶבֶר), Wis.7:3, al. ;] 1. common (general; = Lat. communis): Act.2:44 4:32; κ. πίστις, Tit.1:4; σωτηρία, Ju 3 2. common (ordinary; = vulgaris); hence in LXX (1Ma.1:47, al.) and NT, unhallowed, unclean (cl., βέβηλος, which see): Mrk.7:2, 5, Act.10:14, 28 11:8, Rom.14:14, Heb.10:29, Rev.21:27.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “common” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

COMMON, adjective

  1. Belonging equally to more than one, or to many indefinitely; as, life and sense are common to man and beast; the common privileges of citizens; the common wants of men.
  2. Belonging to the public; having no separate owner.
  3. General; serving for the use of all; as the common prayer.
  4. Universal; belonging to all; as, the earth is said to be the common mother of mankind.
All definitions and other forms of “common”
  1. Public; general; frequent; as common report.
  2. Usual; ordinary; as the common operations of nature; the common forms of conveyance; the common rules of civility.
  3. Of no rank or superior excellence; ordinary.
  4. Prostitute; lewd; as a common woman.
  5. In grammar, such verbs as signify both action and passion, are called common; as aspernor, I despise or am despised; also, such nouns as are both masculine and feminine, as parens.
  6. A common bud, in botany, is one that contains both leaves and flowers; a common peduncle, one that bears several flowers; a common perianth, one that incloses several distinct fructification; a common receptacle, one that connects several distinct fructification.

COMMON, noun

  1. A tract of ground, the use of which is not appropriated to an individual, but belongs to the public or to a number.
  2. In law, an open ground, or that soil the use of which belongs equally to the inhabitants of a town or of a lordship, or to a certain number of proprietors; or the profit which a man has in the land of another; or a right which a person has to pasture has cattle on land of another, or to dig turf, or catch fish, or cut wood, or the like; called common of pasture, of turbary, of piscary, and of estovers.

COMMON, verb intransitive

  1. To have a joint right with others in common ground.
  2. To board together; to eat at a table in common

COMMON, adverb

Commonly.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.