Definition

orderly, i.e. decorous

Etymology

from G2889 (κόσμος) (in its primary sense);

Word family

• κόσμος kósmos

How the KJV renders it

• of good behaviour
• modest

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.