STRONGS G2839:
κοινός,
κοινῇ,
κοινόν (from
ξύν,
σύν,
with; hence especially in epic
ξυνός for
κοινός, whence the Latin
cena ((?); see
Vanicek, p. 1065));
1. as in Greek writings from
Hesiod (Works, 721) down (opposed to
ἴδιος)
common (i. e. belonging to several, Latin
communis):
Acts 2:44;
Acts 4:32;
κοινῇ πίστις,
Titus 1:4;
σωτηρία,
Jude 1:3.
2. by a usage foreign to classical Greek,
common i. e. ordinary, belonging to the generality (Latin
vulgaris); by the Jews opposed to
ἅγιος,
ἡγιασμένος,
καθαρός; hence
unhallowed, Latin
profanus, levitically
unclean (in classical Greek
βέβηλος, which see 2):
Mark 7:2,
5 (where
R L marginal reading
ἀνίπτοις);
Romans 14:14;
Hebrews 10:29;
Revelation 21:27 (
Rec. κοινοῦν) (1 Macc. 1:47;
φαγεῖν κοινά; 1 Macc. 1:62;
κοινοῖ ἄνθρωποι, common people,
profanum vulgus,
Josephus, Antiquities 12, 2, 14;
οἱ τόν κοινόν βίον προηρήμενοι, i. e. a life repugnant to the holy law, ibid. 13, 1, 1;
οὐ γάρ ὡς κοινόν ἄρτον οὐδέ ὡς κονον πόμα ταῦτα (i. e. the bread and wine of the sacred supper)
λαμβάνομεν,
Justin Martyr, Apology 1, 66; (
οἱ Χριστιανοι)
τράπεζαν κοινήν παρατιθενται,
ἀλλ' οὐ κοινήν, a table communis but not profanus, Ep. ad
Diogn. 5 [ET], on which cf. Otto's note);
κοινόν καί (
R G ἤ)
ἀκάθαρτον,
Acts 10:14;
κοινόν ἤ ἀκάθαρτον,
Acts 10:28;
Acts 11:8 (
κοινά ἤ ἀκάθαρτα οὐκ ἐσθίομεν,
Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho, c. 20). (Cf.
Trench, § ci.)
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