Koine Greek

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ancient Greek dialect language variety lingua franca

Koine Greek is the common dialect of ancient Greek that served as the primary language of the New Testament and early Christian writings.

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All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Koine Greek canonical 340
New Testament Greek 7
Hellenistic Greek 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek dialect ⓘ
language variety ⓘ
lingua franca ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Alexandrian dialect ⓘ
Koine Greek ⓘ
surface form: Biblical Greek

Common Greek ⓘ
Koine Greek ⓘ
surface form: Hellenistic Greek
developedFrom Attic Greek ⓘ
Ionic Greek ⓘ
endTime 4th century AD ⓘ
follows Classical Greek ⓘ
hasFeature changes in vowel pronunciation ⓘ
increased use of periphrastic constructions ⓘ
loss of dative case in many contexts ⓘ
monophthongization of diphthongs ⓘ
more analytic syntax ⓘ
reduced use of optative mood ⓘ
simplified grammar compared to Classical Greek ⓘ
historicalPeriod Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Hellenistic period

Roman period ⓘ
influenced Christian theological terminology ⓘ
Medieval Greek ⓘ
Modern Greek ⓘ
influencedBy Latin ⓘ
Semitic languages ⓘ
languageBranch Hellenic languages ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European languages ⓘ
precedes Medieval Greek ⓘ
primaryLanguageOf New Testament manuscripts ⓘ
Septuagint ⓘ
surface form: Septuagint manuscripts
startTime 4th century BC ⓘ
subclassOf Modern Greek ⓘ
surface form: Greek language

Hellenistic Greek ⓘ
usedAs administrative language ⓘ
literary language ⓘ
trade language ⓘ
usedBy Hellenistic Jews ⓘ
Roman administration in the East ⓘ
early Christians ⓘ
usedIn Church Fathers ⓘ
surface form: Apostolic Fathers

New Testament ⓘ
Septuagint ⓘ
early Christian liturgy ⓘ
early Christian writings ⓘ
usedInRegion Asia Minor ⓘ
Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ
Greece ⓘ
Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Mesopotamia ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ
surface form: Near East

North Africa ⓘ
writingSystem Greek alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (357)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Alphaeus → languageContext → Koine Greek ⓘ
St. George’s Cathedral → languageOfLiturgy → Koine Greek ⓘ
Arcadocypriot Greek → replacedBy → Koine Greek ⓘ
Mark → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
subject surface form: Gospel of Mark
1 John → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
3 John → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Clement of Alexandria → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
St. Luke → wroteInLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
Parable of the Lost Sheep → languageOfComposition → Koine Greek ⓘ
Star of Bethlehem → languageOfEarliestAccount → Koine Greek ⓘ
Aristarchus of Samothrace → culture → Koine Greek ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hellenistic Greek
John son of Zebedee → languageOfWorks → Koine Greek ⓘ
John → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
subject surface form: Gospel of John
New Testament Greek tradition → hasLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
New Testament Greek tradition → usesDialect → Koine Greek ⓘ
Aristeas → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
subject surface form: Letter of Aristeas
Editio Critica Maior → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Caesarean text-type → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Law of Christ → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Papyrus 46 → writingSystem → Koine Greek ⓘ
Athonite monastic communities → languageOfLiturgy → Koine Greek ⓘ
Jerusalem church → languageUsed → Koine Greek ⓘ
Olivet Discourse → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Love Chapter → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
1 Corinthians 14 → writtenInLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
Chaldiot → hasAncestor → Koine Greek ⓘ
Majority text → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Codex Washingtonianus (in parts) → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
subject surface form: Codex Washingtonianus
Patriarchal Text of the Greek Orthodox Church → hasLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
French translation of the New Testament (1523) → originalLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
Codex Basilensis → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
New Testament "I am" sayings of Jesus → languageOfComposition → Koine Greek ⓘ
Erasmus’s Greek New Testament editions → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
UBS GNT → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Scriptures (2 Peter 3:15–16) → languageContext → Koine Greek ⓘ
Diotrephes → sourceTextLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
Johannine literature → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Johannine epistles → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
the elder → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate → languageOfLiturgy → Koine Greek ⓘ
Anaphora of St. John Chrysostom → usedInLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
Papyrus 66 → language → Koine Greek ⓘ
Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek → subject → Koine Greek ⓘ
this entity surface form: New Testament Greek
American Standard Version → sourceLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
Timoteo → scriptureLanguageOfOrigin → Koine Greek ⓘ
Gaius → languageOfPrimarySource → Koine Greek ⓘ
this entity surface form: KoineGreek
road from Jerusalem to Jericho → languageMentionedIn → Koine Greek ⓘ
this entity surface form: Koine Greek (New Testament text)
prophetess Anna, daughter of Phanuel → sourceTextLanguage → Koine Greek ⓘ
subject surface form: Anna
2 John → language → Koine Greek ⓘ