kosmios

Strong’sG2887

orderly, virtuous

stem kosmi-2 times in the New Testament2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

κόσμιος, -ον (in cl. -α, -ον),

(< κόσμος), [in LXX: Ec 12:9 (תּקן)*;]

orderly, decent, modest: I Ti 2:9 (WH, mg., -ίως, q.v.) 3:2.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2887 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkos'-mee-os

orderly, i.e. decorous

Fromfrom G2889 (in its primary sense);

King Jamesof good behaviour, modest.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κόσμ-ιος, α, ον,
(-ος, ον, Refs 2nd c.AD+, well-ordered, regular, moderate, δαπάνη Refs 5th c.BC+ c; κόσμιόν ἐστι, with infinitive, is a regular practice, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of persons, orderly, well-behaved, δίκαιοι καὶ σοφοὶ καὶ κ.Refs 5th c.BC+ e; of a patient, quiet, Refs 5th c.BC+: frequently in Oratt., of honest, orderly citizens, Refs 5th c.BC+; modest, ὁμιλία Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ κ. decency, order, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb κοσμίως regularly, decently, Refs 5th c.BC+ c; κ. ἥκομεν as befits us, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -ιώτερον, βεβιωκέναι Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -ώτατα, τὰς συμφορὰς φέρειν Refs 5th c.BC+.
II substantive κόσμιος, ὁ, (κόσμος IV) ={κοσμοπολίτης}, Refs 1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

modest1×respectable1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	kosmios	kosmias	kosmiem	kosmiois	kosmiais	kosmieim
object accusative	kosmion1×κόσμιον	kosmian		kosmioin	kosmiain
direct address vocative	kosmior	kosmiar		kosmioir	kosmiair
of, belonging to genitive	kosmiou	kosmiau	kosmieu	kosmioiu	kosmiaiu	kosmieiu
to, for dative	kosmio	kosmia1×κοσμίῳ	kosmie	kosmioi	kosmiai	kosmiei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

kosmistem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kosmi is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

kosmion“respectable”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Timothy 3:2… arō, henau gunaikau andron, nēfalion, sōfronon, kosmion, filoxenon, didaktikon,… of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

kosmia“modest”to, fordative singular1×

1 Timothy 2:9“modest”hōsautōs kai gunaikain en katastola kosmia meta aidōau kai sōfrosunau kosmarō heautain, …Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control …