Here’s a word for you!
I love to play with words. Once in a while one comes along that is hard to define. So you look it up in etymological dictionaries. They give great background and history for words. Or you go to lectures and listen to great academic explanations.
And sometimes the word pops up in popular language of certain subcultures. I was a part of an age specific class called a “koinonia” group. And we had “koinonia fellowships”.
All well and good!
But today I’m reading my Arndt and Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, second edition, p. 438.
Koinonia – a favorite expression for the marital relationship as the most intimate between human beings.
We generally translate this word as . . . fellowship. Kind of puts a new light on our Sunday potlucks!