Dictionaries :: Commune

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Commune:

signifies "to speak with anyone" (dia, "by turns," laleo, "to speak"), Luk 6:11; in Luk 1:65, "to talk over, to noise abroad." The idea that laleo and its compounds bear no reference to the word spoken or the sentiment, is unfounded.
See NOISE.

Commune:

from homos, "together," signifies "to be in company, to associate with any one;" hence, "to have intercourse with," Luk 24:14 (RV, "communed;" AV, "talked"), 15; Act 24:26; in Act 20:11, "talked with."
See TALK.

Commune:

"to talk together," is translated "communed" in Luk 22:4, of the conspiracy of Judas with the chief priests.
See CONFER, SPEAK, TALK.

Note: Laleo and its compounds, and the noun lalia, "speech," have a more dignified meaning in the Hellenistic Greek than "to chatter," its frequent meaning in earlier times.