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:
John 14:17: "of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because"
John 14:19: "a little while, and the world seeth me no more;"
John 14:22: "and not unto the world?"
John 14:27: "not as the world giveth, give I unto you."
John 14:30: "the prince of this world cometh, and hath"
John 14:31: "But that the world may know that I love the"
John 15:18: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated"
John 15:19: "ye were of the world, the world would love"
John 15:19: "the world, the world would love his own: but"
John 15:19: "ye are not of the world, but I have chosen"
John 15:19: "have chosen you out of the world, therefore the"
John 15:19: "the world, therefore the world hateth you."
John 16:8: "is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of"
John 16:11: "the prince of this world is judged."
John 16:20: "lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful,"
John 16:21: "is born into the world."
John 16:28: "am come into the world: again, I leave the world,"
John 16:28: "again, I leave the world, and go to the"
John 16:33: "peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer;"
John 16:33: "I have overcome the world."
John 17:5: "thee before the world was."
John 17:6: "me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest"
John 17:9: "not for the world, but for them which thou hast given"
John 17:11: "more in the world, but these are in"
John 17:11: "are in the world, and I come to"
John 17:12: "them in the world, I kept them in"
John 17:13: "I speak in the world, that they might have my joy"
John 17:14: "word; and the world hath hated them, because they are"
John 17:14: "not of the world, even as I am not"
John 17:14: "not of the world."
John 17:15: "them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them"
John 17:16: "not of the world, even as I am not"
John 17:16: "not of the world."
John 17:18: "me into the world, even so have I also sent them into"
John 17:18: "them into the world."
John 17:21: "us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent"
John 17:23: "and that the world may know that thou hast sent"
John 17:24: "for thou lovedst me before"
John 17:24: "for thou lovedst me before"
John 17:25: "Father, the world hath not known thee: but"
John 18:20: "spake openly to the world; I ever taught in"
John 18:36: "not of this world: if my kingdom were"
John 18:36: "were of this world, then would my servants fight,"
John 18:37: "came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth."
John 21:25: "every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain"
Acts 17:24: "God that made the world and all things therein,"
Romans 1:8: "is spoken of throughout the whole world."
Romans 1:20: "of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are"
Romans 3:6: "how shall God judge the world?"
Romans 3:19: "and all the world may become guilty before God."
