κοινωνικός
koinōnikós · G2843 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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ready to share
(Derivative of κοινωνέω ‘to share,’) Pertaining to willing and ready sharing
Examples1 Timothy 6:18 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- φιλάργυρος philárgyros · G5366 · loving wealth, lover of riches
- φιλάργυρος (1 Tim 3:3; 2 Tim 3:2; Lk 16:14) denotes love of money and greediness, the opposite disposition to κοινωνικός which describes liberality and readiness to share material resources. The two represent opposite orientations toward wealth—hoarding versus sharing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Ready to share57.100
- κοινωνικός describes a generous or liberal disposition toward giving. 1 Timothy 6:18 instructs the rich “to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,” the κοινωνικούς naming this liberal readiness to give that Timothy is to teach them.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κοινωνικη, κοινωνικον (κοινωνία); 1. social, sociable, ready and apt to form and maintain…
1. social, sociable, ready and apt to form and maintain communion and fellowship: Plato, deff., p. 411 e.; Aristotle, pol. 3,13 (p. 1283a, 38; eth. Eudem. 8, 10, p. 1242a, 26 κοινωνικον ἄνθρωπος ζοων); Polybius 2, 44,1; Antoninus 7, 52. 55; often in Plutarch; πράξεις κοινωνικαι, actions having reference to human society, Antoninus 4, 33; 5, 1.
2. inclined to make others sharers in one's possessions, inclined to impart, free in giving, liberal (Aristotle, rhet. 2, 24, 2 (where, however, see Cope); Lucian, Tim. 56): 1 Tim 6:18.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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