Explore Koine through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like greek or hellenic. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Koine meaning
The “common” Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek.
Synonyms of Koine
Using Koine
- The main meaning on this page is: The “common” Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek.
- Useful related words include: greek, hellenic, hellenic language, lingua franca.
- In the example corpus, koine often appears in combinations such as: koine greek, the koine.
Context around Koine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Koine
- In this selection, "koine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bishop, elder, jewish, greek and dialect stand out and add context to how "koine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a prestige koine dialect in and additionally koine greek was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "koine" sits close to words such as abada, abbottabad and abdulkareem, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with koine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These stops were called ψιλά, δασέα, μέσα main "thin, thick, middle" by Koine Greek grammarians. (15 words)
However, in the New Testament, fornication is the word used to translate the Koine Greek word porneia into English. (19 words)
As a consequence of Alexander's conquests, koine Greek had become the shared language around the eastern Mediterranean and into Asia Minor. (22 words)
Michele Renee Salzman, "Religious koine and Religious Dissent," in A Companion to Roman Religion (Blackwell, 2007), p. 116. During Rome's Classical period, the body was most often cremated, and the ashes placed in a tomb outside the city walls. (40 words)
Jewish Koine Greek exists primarily as a category of literature, or cultural category, but apart from some distinctive religious vocabulary is not so distinct from other varieties of Koine Greek as to be counted a separate dialect. (37 words)
Additionally, Koine Greek was the lingua franca or international language of the Middle East in trade, among the Hellenized classes (much like French in the 18th,19th and 20th centuries in Europe), and in the Roman administration. (37 words)
Example sentences (13)
Basis Presbyterian polity is constructed on specific assumptions about the form of the government intended by the Bible : * " Bishop " ( Koine Greek "episcopos") and "elder" (Koine Greek "presbyteros") are synonymous terms.
Jewish Koine Greek exists primarily as a category of literature, or cultural category, but apart from some distinctive religious vocabulary is not so distinct from other varieties of Koine Greek as to be counted a separate dialect.
Additionally, Koine Greek was the lingua franca or international language of the Middle East in trade, among the Hellenized classes (much like French in the 18th,19th and 20th centuries in Europe), and in the Roman administration.
As a consequence of Alexander's conquests, koine Greek had become the shared language around the eastern Mediterranean and into Asia Minor.
As a result of this teaching, translations of the Torah into Koine Greek by early Jewish Rabbis have survived as rare fragments only.
He had collected several manuscripts, which he named: the Sinopic, the Massiliotic, etc. The one he selected for correction was the koine, which Murray translates as “the Vulgate”.
Historical The term epigenesis has a generic meaning "extra growth", taken directly from Koine Greek ἐπιγέννησις main, used in English since the 17th century.
However, in the New Testament, fornication is the word used to translate the Koine Greek word porneia into English.
In the Koine Greek of Roman times, crocodilos and crocodeilos would have been pronounced identically, and either or both may be the source of the Latinized form crocodīlus used by the ancient Romans.
Michele Renee Salzman, "Religious koine and Religious Dissent," in A Companion to Roman Religion (Blackwell, 2007), p. 116. During Rome's Classical period, the body was most often cremated, and the ashes placed in a tomb outside the city walls.
The original Greek word daimon does not carry the negative connotation initially understood by implementation of the Koine δαιμόνιον main (daimonion), citation and later ascribed to any cognate words sharing the root.
These stops were called ψιλά, δασέα, μέσα main "thin, thick, middle" by Koine Greek grammarians.
This has led researchers to postulate the existence of a prestige koine dialect in the one or two centuries immediately following the Arab conquest, whose features eventually spread to all of the newly conquered areas.
Common combinations with koine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: