Strong's #2889: kosmos (pronounced kos'-mos)
probably from the base of 2865; orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by implication, the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively (morally)):--adorning, world.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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kosmos
1) an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government
2) ornament, decoration, adornment, i.e. the arrangement of the stars, ' the heavenly hosts' , as the ornament of the heavens. I Peter 3:3
3) the world, the universe
4) the circle of the earth, the earth
5) the inhabitants of the earth, men, the human family
6) the ungodly multitude; the whole mass of men alienated from God, and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ
7) world affairs, the aggregate of things earthly
7a) the whole circle of earthly goods, endowments riches, advantages, pleasures, etc, which although hollow and frail and fleeting, stir desire, seduce from God and are obstacles to the cause of Christ
8) any aggregate or general collection of particulars of any sort James 3:6
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: probably from the base of G2865
Citing in TDNT: 3:868, 459
Usage:
This word is used 188 times:
Matthew 4:8: "all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory"
Matthew 5:14: "the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill"
Matthew 13:35: "things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."
Matthew 13:38: "field is the world; the good seed are"
Matthew 16:26: "he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Matthew 18:7: "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses"
Matthew 24:21: "not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever"
Matthew 25:34: "for you from the foundation of the world:"
Matthew 26:13: "shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman"
Mark 8:36: "he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Mark 14:9: "shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she"
Mark 16:15: "ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every"
Luke 9:25: "if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or"
Luke 11:50: "which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;"
Luke 12:30: "do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father"
John 1:9: "that cometh into the world."
John 1:10: "He was in the world, and the world was made"
John 1:10: "world, and the world was made by him, and"
John 1:10: "him, and the world knew him not."
John 1:29: "the sin of the world."
John 3:16: "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten"
John 3:17: "Son into the world to condemn the world;"
John 3:17: "to condemn the world; but that the world"
John 3:17: "but that the world through him might be saved."
John 3:19: "is come into the world, and men loved darkness"
John 4:42: "the Savior of the world."
John 6:14: "that should come into the world."
John 6:33: "giveth life unto the world."
John 6:51: "for the life of the world."
John 7:4: "these things, show thyself to the world."
John 7:7: "The world cannot hate you; but me"
John 8:12: "the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk"
John 8:23: "are of this world; I am not of"
John 8:23: "not of this world."
John 8:26: "speak to the world those things which I have heard of"
John 9:5: "I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
John 9:5: "I am the light of the world."
John 9:39: "am come into this world, that they which see not might see;"
John 10:36: "sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am"
John 11:9: "the light of this world."
John 11:27: "which should come into the world."
John 12:19: "nothing? behold, the world is gone after him."
John 12:25: "life in this world shall keep it unto life"
John 12:31: "is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this"
John 12:31: "shall the prince of this world be cast out."
John 12:46: "a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on"
John 12:47: "to judge the world, but to save the"
John 12:47: "to save the world."
John 13:1: "he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved"
John 13:1: "which were in the world, he loved them unto the end."
