κοινωνός
partner
also: associate, comrade, companion fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 6 times (60%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (20%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (10%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2844 appears — 10 distinct verses across 8 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 10:18 κοινωνοὶ n nom pl masc Consider Israel after the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices have communion with the altar?
- 1 Corinthians 10:20 κοινωνοὺς n acc pl masc But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have communion with demons.
2 Corinthians 2 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:7 κοινωνοί n nom pl masc Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
- 2 Corinthians 8:23 κοινωνὸς n nom sg masc As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
Philemon 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 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.
κοινωνος (koinōnós) is a Greek noun most often rendered “partner.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 23:30. It turns up in 10 verses across 8 books, an uncommon footprint. Ranging over 2 senses, its meaning includes “associate”, “comrade”, and “companion”. It clusters with κοινος, κοινοω and κοινωνεω under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2844 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 20%
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 20%
- Matthew 1 verse 10%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 50%
- Gospels 2 verses · 20%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 20%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 10%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 10%
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: Partakers 4×, Partner 2×
- American Standard Version: Partakers 4×, Communion 2×, Partner 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Partners 3×, Partner 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Partakers 3×, Partner 2×, Partners 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2844 across 10 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 G2844 across 10 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2844 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2844 across 11 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.
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.
- a partner, associate, comrade, companion
- a partner, sharer, in anything
Word origin
Derived from κοινος (koinós) (G2839) — common.
From G2839 ; a sharer that is associate : - companion X fellowship partaker partner.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2844 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κοινωνοὶ koinōnoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 23:30 | 5 |
| κοινωνοί koinōnoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 1:7 | 1 |
| κοινωνοὺς koinōnoùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 10:20 | 1 |
| κοινωνόν koinōnón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Philemon 1:17 | 1 |
| κοινωνός koinōnós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 5:1 | 1 |
| κοινωνὸς koinōnòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 8:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2844, 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
Derived from this word
- κοινωνεω koinōnéō G2841 to share
- κοινωνια koinōnía G2842 fellowship
- κοινωνικος koinōnikós G2843 generous
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κοινωνος 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 Kings 17:11 κοινωνός
- Proverbs 28:24 κοινωνός
- Isaiah 1:23 κοινωνός
- Malachi 2:14 κοινωνός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2844) 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 Kings 17:11 κοινωνός and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
- Proverbs 28:24 κοινωνός Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
- Isaiah 1:23 κοινωνός Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
- Malachi 2:14 κοινωνός Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2844) 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.
