| Strong's Concordance kosmios: orderlyOriginal Word: κόσμιος, ία, ον Part 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). Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 2887: κόσμιος κόσμιος, 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.) From kosmos (in its primary sense); orderly, i.e. Decorous -- of good behaviour, modest.  see GREEK kosmos  Englishman's ConcordanceStrong's Greek 2887 2 Occurrences κοσμίῳ — 1 Occ. κόσμιον — 1 Occ. 1 Timothy 2:9 Adj-DFS GRK: ἐν καταστολῇ κοσμίῳ μετὰ αἰδοῦς NAS: themselves with proper clothing, KJV: themselves in modest apparel, with INT: in apparel seemly with modesty 1 Timothy 3:2 Adj-AMS | 



