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Strong's #2840: koinoo (pronounced koy-no'-o)

from 2839; to make (or consider) profane (ceremonially):--call common, defile, pollute, unclean.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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koinoō

1) to make common

1a) to make (Levitically) unclean, render unhallowed, defile, profane

1b) to declare or count unclean

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2839

Citing in TDNT: 3:809, 447




Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Matthew 15:11: "into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out"
Matthew 15:11: "of the mouth, this defileth a man."
Matthew 15:18: "the heart; and they defile the man."
Matthew 15:20: "These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands"
Matthew 15:20: "to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man."
Mark 7:15: "into him can defile him: but the things which come out of"
Mark 7:15: "him, those are they that defile the man."
Mark 7:18: "the man, it cannot defile him;"
Mark 7:20: "the man, that defileth the man."
Mark 7:23: "come from within, and defile the man."
Acts 10:15: "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."
Acts 11:9: "heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."
Acts 21:28: "the temple, and hath polluted this holy place."
Hebrews 9:13: "of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying"
Revelation 21:27: "into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or"









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