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κοινωνία G2842

koinōnía

koy-nohn-ee'-ah

from κοινωνός; partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction:--(to) communicate(-ation), communion, (contri-)distribution, fellowship.

Abbott–Smith

κοινωνία, -ας, ἡ (< κοινωνός), [in LXX: Le 6:2 (5:21) (יָד תְּשׂוּמֶת), Wi 8:18, III Mac 4:6*;]
1. fellowship, communion: Ac 2:42, II Co 6:14, Phl 1:5; τ. υἱοῦ, I Co 1:9; τ. αἵματος, σώματος Χρ., I Co 10:16; παθημάτων αὐτσῦ, Phl 3:10; τ. πνεύματος, II Co 13:13, Phl 2:1; δεξιὰς κοινωνίας, Ga 2:9; τ. πίστεώς σου, Phm 6; seq. μετὰ: τ. πατρός, I Jo 1:3, 6; ἡμῶν, ἀλλήλων, ib. 3, 7.
2. contribution (as outcome of fellowship): Ro 15:26, II Co 8:4 9:13, He 13:6 (cf. Art. Communion, DB, i, 460 ff.; MM, Exp., xv).†

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.


18 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Acts 2:42
    And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
  • Romans 15:26
    For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:9
    God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:16
    The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
  • 2 Corinthians 6:14
    Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • 2 Corinthians 8:4
    Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
  • 2 Corinthians 9:13
    Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
  • 2 Corinthians 13:14
    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.
  • Galatians 2:9
    And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
  • Ephesians 3:9
    And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

3 in the Septuagint

  • Leviticus 6:2
    Ψυχὴ ἐὰν ἁμάρτῃ καὶ παριδὼν παρίδῃ τὰς ἐντολὰς Κυρίου, καὶ ψεύσηται τὰ πρὸς τὸν πλησίον ἐν παραθήκῃ ἢ περὶ κοινωνίας ἢ περὶ ἁρπαγῆς, ἢ ἠδίκησέν τι τὸν πλησίον,
  • 3 Maccabees 4:6
    αἱ δὲ ἄρτι πρὸς βίου κοινωνίαν γαμικὸν ὑπεληλυθυῖαι παστὸν νεάνιδες ἀντὶ τέρψεως μεταλαβοῦσαι γόους, καὶ κόνει τὴν μυροβρεχῆ πεφυρμέναι κόμην, ἀκαλύπτως δὲ ἀγόμεναι, θρῆνον ἀνθ’ ὑμεναίων ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐξῆρχον, ὡς ἐσπαραγμέναι σκύμνοις ἀλλοεθνέσιν·
  • Wisdom 8:18
    καὶ ἐν φιλίᾳ αὐτῆς τέρψις ἀγαθή, καὶ ἐν πόνοις χειρῶν αὐτῆς πλοῦτος ἀνεκλιπής, καὶ ἐν συνγυμνασίᾳ ὁμιλίας αὐτῆς φρόνησις, καὶ εὔκλεια ἐν κοινωνίᾳ λόγων αὐτῆς, περιῄειν ζητῶν ὅπως λάβω αὐτὴν εἰς ἐμαυτόν.

Biblion's Septuagint: the Greek Old Testament in H. B. Swete's edition (Cambridge, 1896–1905), as digitized by the Open Greek and Latin project at the University of Leipzig (First1KGreek), corrected against the printed pages, with lemmas, morphology, Strong's numbers and links to the Hebrew prepared for Biblion. CC BY-SA 4.0.