Greek verb · G2885
κοσμέω
kosmeokos-meh'-o
to order, arrange, prepare; to adorn, furnish
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kosméō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2885is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2885
to put in proper order, i.e. decorate (literally or figuratively); specially, to snuff (a wick)
The King James renders it: adorn, garnish, trim.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kosmeo is rendered "to order, arrange, prepare; to adorn, furnish". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to order, arrange, prepare".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:44Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.
Matthew 12:44κεκοσμημένον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's ten uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to order, arrange, prepare, and to adorn, furnish.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to order, arrange, prepare | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 25:7Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. |
| to adorn, furnishοἶκον, pass., Mat.12:44, Luk.11:25; μνημεῖα, Mat.23:29; τὸ ἱερόν, pass., Luk.21:5; θεμέλιοι, Rev.21:19; νύμφην, pass., Rev.21:2; ἐαυτάς,... | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 12:44Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κόσμος | kosmos | world | Uses185 |
| κόσμιος | kosmios | respectable | Uses2 |
| κοσμικός | kosmikos | earthly | Uses2 |
| κοσμοκράτωρ | kosmokrator | world power | Uses1 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κεκοσμημένον2
- ἐκόσμησαν1
- ἐκόσμουν1
- κεκοσμημένην1
- κεκοσμημένοι1
- κεκόσμηται1
- κοσμεῖν1
- κοσμεῖτε1
- κοσμῶσιν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular2V-RPP-ASM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PAI-2P
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-PAS-3P
- verb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-RPI-3S
- verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singular1V-RPP-ASF
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-RPP-NPM
Matthew
three uses
Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.
- κεκοσμημένονkekosmemenonverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: ordered
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
- κοσμεῖτεkosmeiteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: adorn
Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
- ἐκόσμησανekosmesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: trimmed
Luke
two uses
On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
- κεκοσμημένονkekosmemenonverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: ordered
As some of the disciples were remarking how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and consecrated gifts, Jesus said,
- κεκόσμηταιkekosmetaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it has been adorned
1 Timothy
one use
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
- κοσμεῖνkosmeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: adorning
Titus
one use
not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.
- κοσμῶσινkosmosinverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may adorn
1 Peter
one use
For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,
- ἐκόσμουνekosmounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were adorning
Revelation
two uses
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- κεκοσμημένηνkekosmemenenverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: adorned
The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
- κεκοσμημένοιkekosmemenoiverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: adorned
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.