Strong’s G2158 · Greek
εὐσχήμων
euschḗmōn · yoo-skhay'-mone
Origin from εὖ (G2095) and σχῆμα (G4976);
Meaning well-formed, i.e. (figuratively) decorous, noble (in rank)
In the King James Version comely, honourable.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Mark 15:43Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
- Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
- Acts 17:12Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
- 1 Corinthians 7:35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
- 1 Corinthians 12:24For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.