κοινός
common
‘common’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2839 appears in the Book of Acts — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 2:44 κοινά adj acc pl neut All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
- Acts 4:32 κοινά adj nom pl neut The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
- Acts 10:14 κοινὸν adj acc sg neut But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
- Acts 10:28 κοινὸν adj acc sg masc He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
- Acts 11:8 κοινὸν adj acc sg neut But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“common” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective κοινος (koinós). Its earliest occurrence is Mark 7:2. The Greek New Testament uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Acts. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 12-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2839 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 42%
- Gospels 2 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 17%
- Johannine 1 verse · 8%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 8%
- Revelation 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Common 6×, Unclean 2×
- American Standard Version: Common 6×, Is unclean 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Unclean 4×, Impure 3×, Common 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Common 7×, Defiled 2×, Is unclean 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2839 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2839 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2839 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2839 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- common
- common i.e. ordinary, belonging to generality
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Probably from G4862 ; common that is (literally) shared by all or several or (ceremonially) profane : - common defiled unclean unholy.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2839 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κοινὸν koinòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Acts 10:14 | 7 |
| κοινά koiná | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Acts 2:44 | 2 |
| κοιναῖς koinaîs | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Mark 7:2 | 2 |
| κοινόν koinón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 14:14 | 1 |
| κοινὴν koinḕn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Titus 1:4 | 1 |
| κοινῆς koinē̂s | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Jude 1:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2839, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- συγγενης syngenḗs G4773 related by blood
- συγγνωμη syngnṓmē G4774 pardon
- συγκαθημαι synkáthēmai G4775 to sit together
- συγκαθιζω synkathízō G4776 to sit together
- συγκακοπαθεω synkakopathéō G4777 to suffer together
- συγκακουχεω synkakouchéō G4778 to be ill-treated together
- συγκαλεω synkaléō G4779 to call together
- συγκαλυπτω synkalýptō G4780 to cover completely
- συγκαμπτω synkámptō G4781 to bend together
- συγκαταβαινω synkatabaínō G4782 to go down with
- συγκατατιθεμαι synkatatíthemai G4784 to deposit together
- συγκαταψηφιζω synkatapsēphízō G4785 to vote against
- συγκεραννυμι synkeránnymi G4786 to mix together
- συγκλειω synkleíō G4788 to shut up
- συγκληρονομος synklēronómos G4789 joint heir
- συγκοινωνεω synkoinōnéō G4790 to share together
- συγκοινωνος synkoinōnós G4791 joint partner
- συγκομιζω synkomízō G4792 to collect together
- συγκρινω synkrínō G4793 to join together
- συγκυπτω synkýptō G4794 to bend together
- συγκυρια synkyría G4795 by chance
- συγχαιρω synchaírō G4796 to rejoice with
- συγχεω synchéō G4797 to disturb
- συγχραομαι synchráomai G4798 to associate with
+125 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 153 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κοινος appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 1 book.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 1:14 κοινός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2839) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 1:14 κοινός You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."
- Proverbs 15:23 κοινός Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
- Proverbs 21:9 κοινός It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Proverbs 25:24 κοινός It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2839) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
