Original Word: κοινωνικός, ή, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: koinónikos
Phonetic Spelling: (koy-no-nee-kos')
Short Definition: willing to share
Definition: willing to share, sociable, ready to communicate, beneficent.

Cognate: 2843 koinōnikós (an adjective) – ready to partner with (fellowship in), used only in 1 Tim 6:18. See 2842 (koinōnia).

STRONGS NT 2843: κοινωνικός

κοινωνικός, κοινωνικη, κοινωνικον (κοινωνία);

1. social, sociable, ready and apt to form and maintain communion and fellowship: Plato, deff., p. 411 e.; Aristotle, pol. 3,13 (p. 1283a, 38; eth. Eudem. 8, 10, p. 1242a, 26 κοινωνικον ἄνθρωπος ζοων); Polybius 2, 44,1; Antoninus 7, 52. 55; often in Plutarch; πράξεις κοινωνικαι, actions having reference to human society, Antoninus 4, 33; 5, 1.

2. inclined to make others sharers in one's possessions, inclined to impart, free in giving, liberal (Aristotle, rhet. 2, 24, 2 (where, however, see Cope); Lucian, Tim. 56): 1 Timothy 6:18.

willing to communicate, generous

From koinonos; communicative, i.e. (pecuniarily) liberal -- willing to communicate.

see GREEK koinonos

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