Bible word study

Koinonia (Strong’s G2842): Meaning in the Bible

Koinonia (κοινωνία) is the Greek word numbered G2842 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction. In the King James Bible it is translated (to) communicate(-ation), communion, (contri-)distribution, fellowship..

• Original wordκοινωνία
• Transliterationkoinōnía
• Pronunciationkoy-nohn-ee'-ah
• Strong’s numberG2842
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G2844;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Koinonia appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Koinonia (G2842) stands behind 21 English renderings in 18 verses across 10 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 2 Corinthians (4), 1 John (4), 1 Corinthians (3).

How the King James Bible renders Koinonia, by count

• fellowship12 of 21 (57 percent)
• communion4 of 21 (19 percent)
• a1 of 21 (5 percent)
• communicate1 of 21 (5 percent)
• communication1 of 21 (5 percent)
• contribution1 of 21 (5 percent)

Three places to read Koinonia

• Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• 2 Corinthians 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
• Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

And Christ

Fellowship in the New Testament flows from a prior sharing in the life of God. We are drawn first into communion with the Father and the Son, and only then into real shared life with one another.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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