adjective
koinōnikos
Strong’sG2843
willing to share
stem koinōnik-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* κοινωνικός, -ή, -όν
(< κοινωνία),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2843 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoy-no-nee-kos'
communicative, i.e. (pecuniarily) liberal
Fromfrom G2844;
King Jameswilling to communicate.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
held in common, τὰ κ. property held by corporations, Refs 4th c.BC+; κ. ἐλαιών Refs 1st c.AD+
b relating to partnerships, [δίκαι] Refs 4th c.BC+
c κοινωνικά, τά, tax on corporations, Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 social, ἰσότης κοινωνική [ἡ δικαιοσύνη] Refs 5th c.BC+; [φιλίαι] Refs
3 sociable, κ. καὶ φιλικὴ διάθεσις Refs 4th c.BC+: superlative, τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἡ φύσις κατεσκεύασε -ώτατον Refs 1st c.AD+ H.; τὸ -κόν sociability, Refs 1st c.AD+
3.b of certain signs of the zodiac, Refs
4 giving a share of, τῶν ὄντων Refs 2nd c.AD+ ready to share luck with others, proverbial in Refs 4th c.BC+; liberal, NT+2nd c.AD+; opposed to φθονερός, Refs 2nd c.AD+
5 with dative, in communion with, τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ Refs 6th c.AD+
II active, receptive, sharing in, φωτός Refs 1st c.BC+.
III adverb -κῶς, χρῆσθαι τοῖς εὐτυχήμασι to suffer others to partake in one's good fortune, Refs 2nd c.BC+
III.2 in Medicine texts, by sympathy, κ. σπᾶσθαι probably in Refs 6th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | koinōnikos | koinōnikas | koinōnikem | koinōnikois | koinōnikais | koinōnikeim |
| object accusative | koinōnikon | koinōnikan | koinōnikoin1×κοινωνικούς | koinōnikain | ||
| direct address vocative | koinōnikor | koinōnikar | koinōnikoir | koinōnikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | koinōnikou | koinōnikau | koinōnikeu | koinōnikoiu | koinōnikaiu | koinōnikeiu |
| to, for dative | koinōniko | koinōnika | koinōnike | koinōnikoi | koinōnikai | koinōnikei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
koinōnik is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
koinōnikoin“ready to share”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Timothy 6:18… ploutarō en ergei kalei, eumetadotoin arō, koinōnikoin,… works, and to be generous and ready to share,