koine

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He also speculated that the common people´s dialect was replaced by the standard koine (common) Greek.

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  1. a common language used by speakers of different languages
  2. a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire

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  • You're right that in a perfect world, Christians would learn koine Greek as Jews learn ancient Hebrew, to read the original text. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The claim that God only speaks a certain untranslatable dialect of english (or koine or arabic) and His words cannot be accessed in other languages is just bad theology. —  Planet Atheism
  • He also speculated that the common people´s dialect was replaced by the standard koine (common) Greek. —  American Chronicle
  • A hellenlstic Greek reader; selections from the koine of the New Testament period. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 July - December
  • Furthermore he created economically and culturally, a single world stretching from Greece to the Punjab in India with Greek (koine) as lingua franca. —  American Chronicle
 

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