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Lexicon :: Strong's G2840 - koinoō

Aa
κοινόω
Transliteration
koinoō (Key)
Pronunciation
koy-no'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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 BoxMat 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:11 - Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:18 - But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:20 - These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:15 - There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:18 - And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:20 - And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:23 - All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:15

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:9 - But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:28 - Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:13 - For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:
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