koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

As to whether it is ancient or modern or koine, I cannot say.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAPRICA: Is This The Transylvania Station? « TV BACON] Reference

Coptic was Egyptian with a Greekish alphabet and koine loanwords.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BOLLYWOOD LANGUAGE.] Reference

But then, that's a translation from the koine, so maybe it doesn't count.    From Wordnik.com.  [And now for something completely different] Reference

When term began, I'd never have imagined that my favourite class this year would be biblical koine Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day] Reference

Of course, I'm learning koine in order to have a leg up when I go looking for postgrad study in Classics.    From Wordnik.com.  [between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day] Reference

I don't have a Greek dictionary and my one (1) semester of koine Greek is 30+ years old and probably couldn't have handled "to epieixes" unassisted anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004] Reference

Both the language (koine Greek), and the history and archaeology of Greece from the Bronze Age on down to (and through) Classical times has much to recommend it.    From Wordnik.com.  [between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day] Reference

In case you're wondering, I am studying ancient koine greek, and know this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Greek of the Septuagint is merely the ordinary vernacular Greek, the pure koine of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

He also speculated that the common people´s dialect was replaced by the standard koine (common) Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

He calls this degree stata forma, -- a rational, mediocre sort of beauty, which is not liable to be either koine or poine.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

If you're happy to have ancient greek in with your koine (which is probably OK), the Perseus project is a good place to look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

You're right that in a perfect world, Christians would learn koine Greek as Jews learn ancient Hebrew, to read the original text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The upper classes spoke koine Greek, wore Greek dress, absorbed Greek learning, adopted Greek customs, and took part in Greek athletics.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

Furthermore he created economically and culturally, a single world stretching from Greece to the Punjab in India with Greek (koine) as lingua franca.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

The cosmopolitan form of literary Greek which then came into use among men of non-Attic, often of non-Hellenic origin, was known as the Common (koine, sc. dialektos) or Hellenic dialect.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference

His recension, copied by Pamphilus and Eusebius, is called the hexaplar, to distinguish it from the version previously employed and which is called the common, vulgate, koine, or ante-hexaplar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

"Well, you've declared yourself reasonably fluent in the Greek koine.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Will Be Time]

“Well, you’ve declared yourself reasonably fluent in the Greek koine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

Racahel de Vienne 6:16 pm: hey, I put two years into being able to read koine greek, i still can’t do it well or without a lexicon. … it’s not necessary to research either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Writing Paganism and Non-Christian Religions « Coyote Con] Reference

"You use a word that is not yet common koine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaker for the Dead]

"That is, my dears, 'The woman you would marry is either handsome or ugly: if handsome, she is koine, -- namely, you don't have her to yourself; if ugly, she is poine, -- that is, a fury.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Greek, the koine dislektos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

koine Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Praise Ye, the Lard] Reference