κοινωνέω
to share
‘to share’ 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 Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2841 appears — 8 distinct verses across 7 books. 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.
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 12:13 κοινωνοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
- Romans 15:27 ἐκοινώνησαν aor act ind 3pl Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
Galatians 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
2 John 1 verse
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.
“to share” is the headline sense of the Greek verb κοινωνεω (koinōnéō). First canonically at Romans 12:13, it enters the text early. It appears 8 verses across 7 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Romans. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2841 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 2 verses 25%
- Galatians 1 verse 13%
- Philippians 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 63%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 25%
- Johannine 1 verse · 13%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 13%
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: Are partakers 1×, Be partaker 1×, Communicate 1×
- American Standard Version: Are sharers 1×, Be partaker of 1×, Communicate 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Have 1×, Have shared in 1×, Must share 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Share 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2841 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2841 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2841 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2841 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear 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.
- to come into communion or fellowship with, to become a sharer, be made a partner
- to enter into fellowship, join one's self to an associate, make one's self a sharer or partner
Word origin
Derived from κοινωνος (koinōnós) (G2844) — partner.
From G2844 ; to share with others (objectively or subjectively): - communicate distribute be partaker.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G2841 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Κοινωνείτω Koinōneítō | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | Galatians 6:6 | 1 |
| κεκοινώνηκεν kekoinṓnēken | Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 2:14 | 1 |
| κοινωνεῖ koinōneî | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 John 1:11 | 1 |
| κοινωνεῖτε koinōneîte | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Peter 4:13 | 1 |
| κοινωνοῦντες koinōnoûntes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 12:13 | 1 |
| κοινώνει koinṓnei | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | 1 Timothy 5:22 | 1 |
| ἐκοινώνησαν ekoinṓnēsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Romans 15:27 | 1 |
| ἐκοινώνησεν ekoinṓnēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Philippians 4:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2841, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κοινωνεω appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 4 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 20:35 κοινωνέω
- Job 34:8 κοινωνέω
- Proverbs 1:11 κοινωνέω
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 κοινωνέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2841) 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.
- 2 Chronicles 20:35 κοινωνέω After this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly:
- Job 34:8 κοινωνέω Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
- Proverbs 1:11 κοινωνέω If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 κοινωνέω For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2841) 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.
