Koinoneo means “communicate” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2841 — chashrah (“dark”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2841 κοινωνέω (koinoneo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. koinoneo (koy-no-neh'-o) v. 1. to share with others (objectively or subjectively) [from G2844] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include partakers, communicate, other, and partaker. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
koinoneo (koy-no-neh'-o) v. 1. to share with others (objectively or subjectively) [from G2844] KJV: communicate, distribute, be partaker Root(s): G2844
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2841. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to participate
Usage: κοινωνέω, -ῶ [in LXX: 2Ch.20:35, Job.34:8, Ecc.9:4 (חָבַר), Pro.1:11, Wis.6:23, Sir.13:1, al. ;] to have a share of, go shares in (something) with (some one), take part in: with genitive of thing(s) (as usually in cl., so Pr, l.with), Heb.2:14; with dative of thing(s), Rom.12:13 15:27, 1Ti.5:22, 1Pe.4:13, 2Jn.11; with dative of person(s), before εἰς, Php.4:15; ἐν, Gal.6:6 (cf. συν-κοινωνέω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render koinoneo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2841 (κοινωνέω) appears 13 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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8 indexed usages in New Testament.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And afterward Jehoshaphat king of Judah entered into an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel (now this was an unrighteous man),
Saying, I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, Nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, To go with the ungodly.
If they should exhort thee, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, And let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And therefore the place itself, that was partaker with them of the adversity that happened to the nation, did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up with all glory.
He prayed him also to take a wife, and to beget children: so he married, was quiet, and took part of this life.
Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honor from a future connection with him.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2841.
And afterward Jehoshaphat king of Judah entered into an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel (now this was an unrighteous man),
Saying, I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, Nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, To go with the ungodly.
If they should exhort thee, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, And let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:
For who is he that has fellowship with all the living? There is hope of him: For a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
And therefore the place itself, that was partaker with them of the adversity that happened to the nation, did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up with all glory.
He prayed him also to take a wife, and to beget children: so he married, was quiet, and took part of this life.
Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honor from a future connection with him.
They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; nay, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation.
Neither will I go with consuming envy; For such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; And he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.
Burden not thyself above thy power while thou livest; And have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: For how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? For if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.
What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb? So the sinner with the godly.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2841, grouped by book.
Koinoneo (Strong's G2841) is a Greek word most simply glossed "communicate". koinoneo (koy-no-neh'-o) v. 1. to share with others (objectively or subjectively) [from G2844]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G2841 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2841 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as partakers, communicate, other, and partaker. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2841, with linked reader references where each row is available.