Strong's G2843: κοινωνικός (koinōnikós) Meaning

Quick Definition

κοινωνικός, ή, όν Adj willing to share

Strong's Definition

communicative, i.e. (pecuniarily) liberal

Derivation: from G2844 (κοινωνός);

KJV Usage: willing to communicate

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κοινωνικός (G2843)

adjc. | -ή, -όν | κοινόω

57.100 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Give

ready to share (derivative of κοινωνέω[a] ‘to share,’ 57.98) pertaining to willing and ready sharing

1TI 6:18

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κοινωνικός, -7), -όν, (κοινωνία) ; 1. social, sociable, ready and apt to form and maintain communion and fellowship: Plat. deff. p.411 e.; Aristot. pol. 3, 13 [p. 1283, 38; eth. Eudem. 8, 10 p. 1242*, 26 κοινωνικὸν ἄνθρωπος ζῷον); Polyb. 2,44,1; Antonin. 7,52. 55; often in Plut.; πράξεις xow. actions having reference to human society, Antonin. 4, 33; 5, 1. 2. inclined to make others sharers in one’s possessions, inclined to impart. free in. quing, liberai, (Aristot. rhet. 2, 24, 2 [where, however, see Cope}; Leian. Tim. 56): 1 Tim. vi. 18.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

κοινωνικός koinōnikos 1x

social; in NT generous, liberal, beneficent, 1 Tim. 6:18*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* κοινωνικός, -ή, -όν

(< κοινωνία),

sociable.

ready to communicate or impart (R, mg., ready to sympathize, v. Field, Notes, 213 f.): I Ti 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-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

κοινωνικός (koinōnikos) — generous. κοινων-ικός, ή, όν, held in common, τὰ κ. property held by corporations, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κ. ἐλαιών [Refs 1st c.AD+] __b relating to partnerships, [δίκαι] [Refs 4th c.BC+] __c κοινωνικά, τά, tax on corporations, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

2. social, ἰσότης κοινωνική [ἡ δικαιοσύνη] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [φιλίαι] [Refs]

3. sociable, κ. καὶ φιλικὴ διάθεσις [Refs 4th c.BC+]: superlative, τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἡ φύσις κατεσκεύασε -ώτατον [Refs 1st c.AD+] H.; τὸ -κόν sociability, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

3. b of certain signs of the zodiac, [Refs]

4. giving a share of, τῶν ὄντων [Refs 2nd c.AD+] ready to share luck with others, proverbial in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; liberal, [NT+2nd c.AD+]; opposed to φθονερός, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

5. with dative, in communion with, τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ [Refs 6th c.AD+]

II. active, receptive, sharing in, φωτός [Refs 1st c.BC+].

III. adverb -κῶς, χρῆσθαι τοῖς εὐτυχήμασι to suffer others to partake in one's good fortune, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

III.2. in Medicine texts, by sympathy, κ. σπᾶσθαι probably in [Refs 6th c.AD+]

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.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

6:18

G2843 κοινωνικός (koinōnikós)