G2887

κόσμιος

kosmiosG:A

respectable

κόσμιος, -ον (in cl. -α, -ον), (κόσμος), [in LXX: Ecc.12:9 (תָּקַן)* ;] orderly, decent, modest: 1Ti.2:9 (WH, mg., -ίως, which see) 1Ti.3:2.† (AS)

The KJV translates G2887 in the following manner:

behaviour (2x), modest (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

κόσμιος — kósmios

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: 1Ti 2:9 (WH marginal reading κοσμίως); of a man living with decorum, a well-ordered life, 1Ti 3:2. (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Lysias, others) (Cf. Trench, § xcii.)

STRONGS NT 2887a: κοσμίως [κοσμίως, adverb (decently), from κόσμιος, which see: 1Ti 2:9 WH marginal reading (Aristophanes, Isocrates, others.)]

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