Greek adjective · G2887
κόσμιος
kosmioskos'-mee-os
respectable
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kósmios
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2887is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2887
orderly, i.e. decorous
The King James renders it: of good behaviour, modest.
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
kosmios is rendered "respectable". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Timothy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Timothy 2:9Likewise, 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,
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first 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,
1 Timothy 2:9κοσμίῳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in 1 Timothy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- respectable2
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 |
| κοσμέω | kosmeo | to arrange | Uses10 |
| κοσμικός | kosmikos | earthly | Uses2 |
| κοσμοκράτωρ | kosmokrator | world power | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- κόσμιον1
- κοσμίῳ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1A-DSF
1 Timothy
two uses
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,
- κοσμίῳkosmioadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: respectable
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- κόσμιονkosmionadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: respectable
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.