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GreekG2840Verb

κοινόω

koinoō

11Occurrences
G2840Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to make (or consider) profane (ceremonially)

from G2839 (κοινός);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.in cl., to make common.
2.In LXX, l.with, and NT (as κοινός, 2), to make ceremonially unclean, to profane
3.to count unclean
Synonyms
βεβηλόω. Thayer ( κ.) mentions that Winer Notes the accuracy whereby the Jews are said to use κ. in addressing Jews, and β. when speaking to Felix
LXX: 4 א R*

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

G:V

Full Description

Greek Verb

Occurrences

κοινόω appears 11 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Mark
4
Acts
3
Matthew
3
Hebrews
1

Key Passages

Acts 10:15BSB

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

Acts 21:28BSB

crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

Matthew 15:11BSB

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

Matthew 15:20BSB

These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

Mark 7:18BSB

“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.