koinos · common, unclean

What it means

koinos (κοινός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “common, unclean”.

Common; unclean by the ritual rules.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What belongs to all or is shared.
2. What is not considered clean for God.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• profane ×6
• common ×5
• defiled ×2
• unclean ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Mark×2
• Acts×5
• Romans×3
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×1
• Jude×1
• Revelation×1

• Mark 7:2

  and they saw that some of his disciples were eating the bread with defiled hands, that is, unwashed.

• Mark 7:5

  And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat the bread with defiled hands?”

• Acts 2:44

  And all who believed were together and had all things in common.

• Acts 4:32

  And the multitude of those who had believed was of one heart and soul, and not even one said that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

• Acts 10:14

  But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything profane or unclean.”

• Acts 10:28

  And he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner; but to me God showed that I should call no person profane or unclean.

• Acts 11:8

  But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for never has anything profane or unclean entered into my mouth.’

• Romans 14:14

  I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is profane in itself, except to the one who considers anything to be profane; to that one it is profane.

• Titus 1:4

  to Titus, my genuine child in a common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus our Savior.

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled on the Son of God, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• Jude 1:3

  Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you, urging you to contend for the faith once for all handed down to the saints.

• Revelation 21:27

  And nothing unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who practices abomination and falsehood, but only those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

And 2 more times.