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kum´li -nes , kum´li : Cognate with "becoming," namely, what is suitable, graceful, handsome. The servant of Yahweh in Isaiah 53:2 is without "comeliness" ( hādhār , "honor"), i.e. there is in his appearance nothing attractive, while he is bowed beneath man's sin. "Praise is comely" (nā'wāh , f. of nā'weh ; Psalm 33:1; Psalm 147:1 ), i.e. suitable or befitting "for the righteous," and, therefore, an honor and glory; "uncomely parts," aschḗmona (1 Corinthians 12:23 ), namely, less honorable. See also 1 Samuel 16:18 , "a comely person"; Song of Solomon 6:4 , "comely as Jerusalem." etc.