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Meanings of hellenistic greek in English

Russian
койне
Portuguese
grego bíblico
Spanish
coine
Catalan
grec koiné

Common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world.

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      Usage of hellenistic greek in English
      1
      Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures and Hellenistic Greek, University of Michigan
      Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs
      2
      In 1891 he was transferred to the chair of Hellenistic Greek, Payne Theological Seminary.
      Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
      3
      He spent a part of the following year in Oberlin Theological Seminary in special study of the Semitic languages and Hellenistic Greek.
      Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
      4
      One frequently repeated motto was in a sort of Hebraised Hellenistic Greek, and suggested the most terrible daemon-evocations of the Alexandrian decadence:
      The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
      5
      But the language of the Hebrew, the idiom of the Hellenistic Greek, lent themselves with a curious felicity to the purposes of translation.
      Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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      I myself came to it with some prejudice; in complete ignorance of Hebrew, and with no more than the usual amount of Hellenistic Greek.
      On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of ...