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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 - What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:18 - But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:20 - These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:15 - There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:18 - He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand 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 - He said, "What comes out of a person defiles him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:23 - All these evils come from within and defile a person."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:15 - The voice spoke to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:9 - But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:28 - shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!"

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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 ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,
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