From koinov, common. A relation between individuals which involves a common interest and a mutual, active participation in that interest and in each other. The word answers to the Latin communio, from communis, common. Hence, sometimes rendered communion , as 1 Cor. 9 Corinthians xiii.
Fellowship is the most common rendering.
Used by Luke only, and only in the phrase breaking of bread . The kindred verb klazw or klaw, to break , occurs often, but, like the noun, only of breaking bread . Hence used to designate the celebration of the Lord 's Supper . Always of prayer to God . Compare fellowship , ver.