Mark Hodson, Soil pollution and its impact on soil life 6 How wide spread is the problem? 360 000 potentially contaminated sites German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety 2002 figures
The word has such a multitude of meanings that no single English word is adequate to express its depth and richness. It is a derivative of koinos, the word for common. Koinonia is a complex, rich, and thoroughly fascinating Greek approach to building community or teamwork.
Koine is also the language of the Christian New Testament, of the Septuagint (the 3rd-century BC Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible), and of most early Christian theological writing by the Church Fathers. In this context, Koine Greek is also known as Biblical, New Testament, ecclesiastical or patristic Greek.