Lexicon kosmios: orderly Original Word: κόσμιος, ία, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: kosmios Phonetic Spelling: (kos'-mee-os) Short Definition: orderly, virtuous Definition: orderly, virtuous, decent, modest, well-ordered. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2887 kósmios (from 2889 /kósmos, "world"; see also the other adjectival form, 2886 /kosmikós) – literally, ordered (properly organized); hence, well-prepared (well-ordered). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kosmosDefinitionorderly NASB Translationproper (1), respectable (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2887: κόσμιοςκόσμιος, κόσμον, of three term. in classical Greek, cf. WHs Appendix, p. 157; Winers Grammar, § 11, 1; ( Buttmann, 25 (22f)) ( κόσμος), well-arranged, seemly, modest: 1 Timothy 2:9 ( WH marginal reading κοσμίως); of a man living with decorum, a well-ordered life, 1 Timothy 3:2. ( Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Lysias, others) (Cf. Trench, § xcii.) STRONGS NT 2887a: κοσμίως [κοσμίως, adverb (decently), from κόσμιος, which see: 1 Timothy 2:9 WH marginal reading (Aristophanes, Isocrates, others.)]
Strong's of good behavior, modest. From kosmos (in its primary sense); orderly, i.e. Decorous -- of good behaviour, modest. see GREEK kosmos |
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