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:
James 3:6: "the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the"
James 4:4: "the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever"
James 4:4: "will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."
1 Peter 1:20: "was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last"
1 Peter 3:3: "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair,"
1 Peter 5:9: "in your brethren that are in the world."
2 Peter 1:4: "having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
2 Peter 2:5: "spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth"
2 Peter 2:5: "of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;"
2 Peter 2:20: "the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord"
2 Peter 3:6: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."
1 John 2:2: "for the sins of the whole world."
1 John 2:15: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the"
1 John 2:15: "the things that are in the world. If any man love the"
1 John 2:15: "any man love the world, the love of the Father"
1 John 2:16: "that is in the world, the lust of the flesh,"
1 John 2:16: "is of the world."
1 John 2:17: "And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:"
1 John 3:1: "of God: therefore the world knoweth us not,"
1 John 3:13: "brethren, if the world hate you."
1 John 3:17: "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth"
1 John 4:1: "are gone out into the world."
1 John 4:3: "is it in the world."
1 John 4:4: "he that is in the world."
1 John 4:5: "are of the world: therefore speak they of"
1 John 4:5: "therefore speak they of the world, and the world"
1 John 4:5: "the world, and the world heareth them."
1 John 4:9: "Son into the world, that we might live through him."
1 John 4:14: "Son to be the Savior of the world."
1 John 4:17: "are we in this world."
1 John 5:4: "God overcometh the world: and this is the"
1 John 5:4: "victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."
1 John 5:5: "is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus"
1 John 5:19: "and the whole world lieth in wickedness."
2 John 1:7: "are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ"
Revelation 11:15: "saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and"
Revelation 13:8: "slain from the foundation of the world."
Revelation 17:8: "of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that"
