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Lexicon :: Strong's G2840 - koinoō

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κοινόω
Transliteration
koinoō (Key)
Pronunciation
koy-no'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 3:809,447

Strong’s Definitions

κοινόω koinóō, koy-no'-o; from G2839; to make (or consider) profane (ceremonially):—call common, defile, pollute, unclean.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G2840 in the following manner: defile (11x), call common (2x), pollute (1x), unclean (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G2840 in the following manner: defile (11x), call common (2x), pollute (1x), unclean (1x).

  1. to make common

    1. to make (Levitically) unclean, render unhallowed, defile, profane

    2. to declare or count unclean

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κοινόω koinóō, koy-no'-o; from G2839; to make (or consider) profane (ceremonially):—call common, defile, pollute, unclean.
STRONGS G2840:
κοινόω, κοινῷ; 1 aorist infinitive κοινῶσαι (cf. Winer's Grammar, 91 (86)); perfect κεκοίνωκα; perfect passive participle κεκοινωμενος; (κοινός);
1. in classical Greek to make common.
2. in Biblical use (see κοινός, 2),
a. to make (levitically) unclean, render unhallowed, defile, profane (which the Greeks express by βεβηλόω, cf. Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part ii., p. 24 note 33 (where he calls attention to Luke's accuracy in putting κοινοῦν into the mouth of Jews speaking to Jews (Acts 21:28) and βεβηλοῦν when they address Felix (xxiv. 6))): Revelation 21:27 Rec.; Matthew 15:11, 18, 20; Mark 7:15, 18, 20, 23; passive Hebrews 9:13; τί, Acts 21:28; γαστέρα μαροφαγια, 4 Macc. 7:6.
b. to declare or count unclean: Acts 10:15 (cf. Acts 10:28); Acts 11:9; see δικαιόω, 3.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
15:11; 15:18; 15:20
Mark
7:15; 7:18; 7:20; 7:23
Acts
10:15; 10:28; 11:9; 21:28; 21:28
Hebrews
9:13
Revelation
21:27

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2840 matches the Greek κοινόω (koinoō),
which occurs 14 times in 11 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:11 - it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:18 - But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:20 - These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:15 - There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:18 - And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:20 - And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:23 - All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:15 - And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:9 - But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:28 - crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:13 - For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify[fn] for the purification of the flesh,
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