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:
Romans 4:13: "the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his"
Romans 5:12: "sin entered into the world, and death by"
Romans 5:13: "sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed"
Romans 11:12: "fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them"
Romans 11:15: "casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but"
1 Corinthians 1:20: "the wisdom of this world?"
1 Corinthians 1:21: "wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not"
1 Corinthians 1:27: "the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;"
1 Corinthians 1:27: "the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;"
1 Corinthians 1:28: "And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,"
1 Corinthians 2:12: "the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which"
1 Corinthians 3:19: "the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."
1 Corinthians 3:22: "or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death,"
1 Corinthians 4:9: "we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men."
1 Corinthians 4:13: "as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day."
1 Corinthians 5:10: "the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or"
1 Corinthians 5:10: "go out of the world."
1 Corinthians 6:2: "saints shall judge the world? and if the world"
1 Corinthians 6:2: "and if the world shall be judged by you, are"
1 Corinthians 7:31: "And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for"
1 Corinthians 7:31: "the fashion of this world passeth away."
1 Corinthians 7:33: "careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife."
1 Corinthians 7:34: "careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband."
1 Corinthians 8:4: "an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other"
1 Corinthians 11:32: "be condemned with the world."
1 Corinthians 14:10: "so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them"
2 Corinthians 1:12: "we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward."
2 Corinthians 5:19: "in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their"
2 Corinthians 7:10: "but the sorrow of the world worketh death."
Galatians 4:3: "the elements of the world:"
Galatians 6:14: "Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I"
Galatians 6:14: "is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."
Ephesians 1:4: "him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and"
Ephesians 2:2: "according to the course of this world, according to the prince"
Ephesians 2:12: "without God in the world:"
Philippians 2:15: "as lights in the world;"
Colossians 1:6: "is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as"
Colossians 2:8: "the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
Colossians 2:20: "the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in"
Colossians 2:20: "as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,"
1 Timothy 1:15: "came into the world to save sinners; of whom I"
1 Timothy 3:16: "the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
1 Timothy 6:7: "we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can"
Hebrews 4:3: "were finished from the foundation of the world."
Hebrews 9:26: "have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in"
Hebrews 10:5: "when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering"
Hebrews 11:7: "house; by the which he condemned the world, and became"
Hebrews 11:38: "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in"
James 1:27: "unspotted from the world."
James 2:5: "the poor of this world rich in faith, and"
