Strong's Concordance koinónikos: ready to impart Original Word: κοινωνικός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: koinónikos Phonetic Spelling: (koy-no-nee-kos') Definition: ready to impart Usage: willing to share, sociable, ready to communicate, beneficent. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 2843 koinōnikós (an adjective) – ready to partner with (fellowship in), used only in 1 Tim 6:18. See 2842 (koinōnia). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom koinónia Definition ready to impart NASB Translation ready to share (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2843: κοινωνικόςκοινωνικός, κοινωνικη, κοινωνικον (κοινωνία); 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 Timothy 6:18. From koinonos; communicative, i.e. (pecuniarily) liberal -- willing to communicate. see GREEK koinonos |
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