In Koine Greek, this became, changing further to in Byzantine Greek by iotacism.

While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

The bulk of the documents relate to the running of a large, private estate is named after Heroninos because he was phrontistes ( Koine Greek: manager ) of the estate which had a complex and standarised system of accounting which was followed by all its local farm managers.

Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text, apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".

However, a title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".

Christians accept the Written Torah and other books of the Hebrew Bible as Scripture, although they generally give readings from the Koine Greek Septuagint translation instead of the Biblical Hebrew / Biblical Aramaic Masoretic Text.

" Thus Thrax, like contemporary Alexandrian scholars who edited Attic Greek and Homeric texts, was concerned with facilitating the teaching of classic Greek literature to an audience who spoke Koine Greek.

Category: Koine Greek

The word encyclopaedia comes from the Koine Greek ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία, from Greek, transliterated enkyklios paideia, meaning " general education ": enkyklios ( ἐγκύκλιος ), meaning " circular, recurrent, required regularly, general " + paideia ( παιδεία ), meaning " education, rearing of a child ", but it was reduced to a single word due to an error by copyists of Latin manuscripts.

* Classical Greek and then Koine Greek in the Mediterranean Basin from the Athenian empire to the eastern Roman Empire, being replaced by Modern Greek.

* Koine Greek and Modern Greek, in the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire and other parts of the Balkans south of the Jireček Line.

Category: Texts in Koine Greek

** Koine Greek or Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, New Testament Greek, ( c. 330 BC – 330 AD )

* Koine Greek: The fusion of various ancient Greek dialects with Attic, the dialect of Athens, resulted in the creation of the first common Greek dialect, which became a lingua franca across Eastern Mediterranean and Near East.

Koine Greek can be initially traced within the armies and conquered territories of Alexander the Great, but after the Hellenistic colonization of the known world, it was spoken from Egypt to the fringes of India.

Unlike 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees was written in Koine Greek, probably in Alexandria, Egypt, c 124 BC.

Work on stochastic methods for tagging Koine Greek ( DeRose 1990 ) has used over 1, 000 parts of speech, and found that about as many words were ambiguous there as in English.

Phoebe ( Koine Greek ) was a Christian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16: 1.

" In early 1992, according to Hackbardt, all the earlier New Testament work was abandoned by the Society and an entirely new Bible translation based on the best Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek texts and using the translation principle " closest natural equivalence " -- beginning with the Old Testament -- was completely re-translated by the Society's five scholars, 17 technical reviewers, and four English reviewers.

The Koine Greek word Ιουδαϊζω being translated here occurs once in the Septuagint, in Esther 8: 16 – 17 written around 200 BC in Susa, Persia:

The Koine of the New Testament uses the word makhaira to refer to a sword generically, not making any particular distinction between native blades and the gladius of the Roman soldier.

The word " Thelema " itself is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun: " will ", from the verb θέλω: to will, wish, purpose.

* ámpōtis ebb, being sucked back, i. e. of sea ( Attic anápōtis, verb anapínō ) ( Koine, Modern Greek ampotis )

The Greek manuscripts are without punctuation, so attribution of the adverb " today " to the verb " be ", as " be in paradise today " ( the majority view ), or the verb " say ", as " today I say " ( the minority view ), is dependent on analysis of word order conventions in Koine Greek.

The Koine Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphaneia derives from the verb " to appear " and means " appearance ," " manifestation.

Mary of Bethany ( Judeo-Aramaic מרים, Maryām, rendered Μαρία, Maria, in the Koine Greek of the New Testament ; form of Hebrew מ ִ ר ְ י ָ ם, Miryām, or Miriam, " wished for child ", " bitter " or " rebellious ") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of John and Luke in the Christian New Testament.

The majority view is that all of the books that would eventually form the New Testament were written in Koine Greek.

In the Koine Greek of Roman times, crocodilos and crocodeilos would have been pronounced identically, and either or both may be the source of the Latinized form crocodīlus used by the ancient Romans.

Koine is regarded as a separate historical stage of its own, although in its earlier form it closely resembles the Classical.

Anastasia ( Greek Αναστασία ) is a personal name and the female form of the Greek male name Anastasius / Anastasios ( Koine Greek: Αναστασία ) meaning " resurrection.

In ancient Koine Greek, the word for effeminate is kinaidos ( cinaedus in its Latinized form ), or malakoi.

The main phonological changes occurred during the Hellenistic and Roman period ( see Koine Greek phonology for details ), and included:

The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation for use by the many Alexandrian Jews who were fluent in Koine Greek ( the lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, until the development of Byzantine Greek around 600 CE ), but not in Hebrew.

The New Testament, written by various authors in varying qualities of Koine Greek hails from this period ( 1st to early 2nd century AD ), the most important works being the Gospels and the Epistles of Saint Paul.

It is also one of the English translations of the Koine Greek epithumia ( ἐπιθυμία ), which occurs 38 times in the New Testament.

The cultural dominance of the Athenian Empire and the later adoption of Attic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon ( 382-336 BC ), father of the conqueror Alexander the Great, were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other Greek dialects and the spread of its descendant, Koine, throughout Alexander's Hellenic empire.

But because it was borrowed when Greek oi was pronounced as y ( see Koine Greek phonology ), it was transliterated into Latin as metycus.

Both words, kirk and church, derive from the Koine Greek κυριακόν ( δωμα ) ( kyriakon ( dōma )) meaning Lord's ( house ), which was borrowed into the Germanic languages in late antiquity, possibly in the course of the Gothic missions.

Ichthys ( also Ichthus or Ikhthus ), from the Koine Greek word for fish:, ( capitalized ΙΧΘΥΣ or ΙΧΘΥϹ ) is a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish, used by early Christians as a secret Christian symbol and now known colloquially as the " sign of the fish " or the " Jesus fish.

Atticism ( meaning favouring Attica, the region that includes Athens in Greece ) was a rhetorical movement that began in the first quarter of the 1st century BC ; it may also refer to the wordings and phrasings typical of this movement, in contrast with various contemporary forms of Koine Greek ( both literary and vulgar ), which continued to evolve in directions guided by the common usages of Hellenistic Greek.

* Maurokastron ( Μαυρόκαστρον ) / Leukopolis ( Λευκόπολις ), Koine Greek

Both the Fifth and the Sixth Ecumenical Councils had omitted to draw up disciplinary canons, and as this council was intended to complete both in this respect, it took the name of Quinisext ( Latin: Concilium Quinisextum, Koine Greek: Penthekte Synodos ), i. e. the Fifth-Sixth Council.

Standard literary Assyrian is based on the Urmian dialect and is known as " General Urmian " ( since the 1830s ), with a second standard dialect derived from General Urmian eveloping in the 20th century, known as " Iraqi Koine ".

The Proto-Greek language is the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek, including Mycenaean, the classical Greek dialects ( Attic-Ionic, Aeolic, Doric and Arcado-Cypriot ), and ultimately Koine, Byzantine and modern Greek.

The ancients classified the language into three gene or four dialects, Ionic proper, Ionic ( Attic ), Aeolic, Doric and later a fifth one, Koine.

In Hebrew, Mariamne is known as מ ִ ר ְ י ָ ם, ( Miriam ), as in the traditional, Biblical name (); Mariamne is the Hellenized version of the Hebrew, as Koine Greek was a common language in the late Hasmonean era in Judea (), where both Mariamnes lived.

The term has also been used and is still used in modern Greek ( not just Koine Greek or common ancient Greek ) to mean " existence " along with the Greek word hýparxis ( ὕπαρξις ) and tropos hypárxeos ( τρόπος ὑπάρξεως ), which is individual existence.