Quick Definition
willing to share
Strong's Definition
communicative, i.e. (pecuniarily) liberal
Derivation: from G2844 (κοινωνός);
KJV Usage: willing to communicate
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κοινωνικός, 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): 1Ti_6:18.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κοινωνικός koinō nikos 1 x
social; in NT generous, liberal, beneficent, 1Ti_6:18
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*κοινωνικός , -ή , -όν
( <κοινωνία ),
1. sociable .
2. ready to com\-municate or impart ( R , mg ., ready to sympathize, v. Field, Notes , 213 f .): 1Ti_6:18 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κοινωνικός [page 351]
κοινωνικός is used in the more primary sense of common in BGU IV. 1037 .14 (A.D. 47) ἴσοδος καὶ ἔξοδος τοῦ κοινωνικοῦ ἐλαι [ῶνος , the vineyard being common to two properties : cf. also P Giss I. 30 .7, .12, .14 (A.D. 140 161). For evidence in support of the derived meaning willing to communicate (RV) rather than ready to sympathise (RV marg.) in 1Ti_6:18 , see Field Notes , p. 213 f.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κοινωνικός κοινωνικός, ή, όν "held in common, social", Arist. "giving a share", τινος "of" a thing, Luc. [Etym: from κοινωνός]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κοινωνικός, -ή, -όν
(κοινωνία),
__1. sociable.
__2. ready to communicate or impart (R, mg., ready to sympathize, see Field, Notes, 213 f.): 1Ti.6:18.†
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