Examples of 'koine' in a sentence

Meaning of "koine"

Koine is a common language or dialect that was spoken in the Mediterranean region during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, characterized by a mixture of various ancient Greek dialects
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  • 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.
  • A lingua franca.
  • A regional language that becomes standard over time.

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Koine is laughing hysterically after the montage.
This might be a forerunner of the koine eirene.
The sources used on the studies of Koine have been numerous and of unequal reliability.
Of course these are koine.
Koine Greek was therefore considered a decayed form of Greek which was not worthy of attention.
And it acquired this pronunciation also in Koine.
This term in Koine Greek was used of a benefactor lavishly supplying for a local choir.
For a summary of these previous developments in the Koine.
Koine Greek had several far more common terms for the same idea.
Much of it was composed by Jews who were not even fluent in koine Greek.
During the period generally designated as Koine Greek a great deal of phonological change occurred.
The following comments illustrate the phonological development within the period of Koine.
Koine Greek was simply the common language of the Mediterranean world in the first century.
Herodas did not write his mimiambics in the contemporary Greek koine of his period.
Koine Greek was the Greek of the common people.

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The realizations of certain phonemes differ from the more standard Attic dialect of Koine.
Koine of the Hellenistic age resembles Attic in such a degree.
I also read more than Koine.
Angela Koine Flynn describes the science of skin color.
It is the English translation of the koine Greek kyriake hemera.
Angela Koine Flynn describes the science of skin colour.
We often find Hebrew expressions or terms expressed in koine Greek.
Koine Greek is my favorite language.
There are two primary words for life in Koine Greek language.
Koine Greek arose as a common dialect within the armies of Alexander the Great.
Communication was greatly aided then by the common language of Koine Greek.
Paraclete comes from the Koine Greek word παράκλητος paráklētos.
The former diphthongs became digraphs for simple vowels in Koine Greek.
Some forms of Greek before the Koine Greek period are reconstructed as having aspirated stops.
It is also in Koine.
Ptolemy wrote in Koine Greek and can be shown to have utilized Babylonian astronomical data.
There is a large semantic overlap between these two terms in Koine Greek.
It hails from Hellenistic and medieval Koine but preserves characteristics of Ionic since ancient colonisations.
The original text is written in Koine Greek.
Though Koine Greek had its birth in c.
The original text was written in Koine Greek.
Koine Greek language.
The whole New Testament was written in koine.
As well as the Koine Greek.
The Septuagint is a Koine Greek translation of the original biblical Hebrew holy books.
There are four moods in Koine Greek.
This is a Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible that was used by Greek speakers.
It bears instructions composed in Koine Greek.
Generally, the term koine eirene is only sparsely attested in contemporary sources.
It is considered a continuation of Koine Greek.
The chapter is translated into Koine Greek in the Septuagint version.
The reason the New Testament was penned in koine Greek.
Modern Greek developed from Koine Greek which is spoken today.
The earliest text of the New Testament was written in common or Koine Greek.
This was then inherited by the Koine text of the New Testament.

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