Word Summary
kosmios: orderly
Original Word: κόσμιοςTransliteration: kosmios
Phonetic Spelling: (kos'-mee-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: orderly
Meaning: orderly
Strong's Concordance
of good behavior, modest.
From kosmos (in its primary sense); orderly, i.e. Decorous -- of good behaviour, modest.
see GREEK kosmos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.)]