κόσμος

kosmos

Greek G2889 Noun, masculine 186 occurrences in 151 verses
κόσμος world

κόσμος, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX: Gen.2:1, Deu.4:19 17:3, Isa.24:21 40:26 (צבא), Exo.33:5, 6 Jer.2:32 4:30, Eze.7:20 16:11 23:40 (עֲדִי), Isa.61:10 (כְּלִי), al., Wis.2:24 and freq., Sir.6:30, al ;]

1. order (Hom., Plat., al.).

2. ornament, adornment, esp. of women (Hom., al.): 1Pe.3:3.

3. Later, the world or universe, as an ordered system (Plat., al.): Act.17:24, Rom.4:13, 1Co.3:22, Php.2:15, Heb.4:3, al.

4. In late writers only, the world, i.e. the earth (= ἡ οἰκουμένη, cf. Mat.4:8 with Luk.4:5): Mat.4:8, Mrk.16:[15], Col.2:20, 1Ti.6:7, al.; hence by meton.,

(a) of the human inhabitants of the world: Mat.5:14 15:38, Mrk.14:9, Jhn.1:10 4:42 12:47, Rom.3:6, 1Co.4:13, 2Co.5:19, 2Pe.2:5, al.;

(b) of worldly affairs or possessions: Mat.16:26, Mrk.8:36, Luk.9:25, 1Co.7:31, 1Jn.2:16, al.;

(c) in ethical sense, of the ungodly: Jhn.7:7 14:17, 27 1Co.1:21, Jas.1:27, 1Jn.4:4, al.;

(d) metaphorically: ὁ κ. τῆς ἀδικίας, Jas.3:6.

SYN.: αἰών, which see (cf . also Dalman, Words, 162ff.; Tr., Syn., §lix; Westc., additional note on Jhn.1:10; DB, iv, 938ff.). (AS)

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Concordance 151 verses

  1. John 16:11 κόσμου

    and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

  2. John 16:20 κόσμος

    Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

  3. John 16:21 κόσμον

    A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

  4. John 16:28 κόσμονκόσμον

    I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

  5. John 16:33 κόσμῳκόσμον

    I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

  6. John 17:5 κόσμον

    And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

  7. John 17:6 κόσμου

    I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

  8. John 17:9 κόσμου

    I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours.

  9. John 17:11 κόσμῳκόσμῳ

    I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

  10. John 17:13 κόσμῳ

    But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

  11. John 17:14 κόσμοςκόσμουκόσμου

    I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  12. John 17:15 κόσμου

    I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

  13. John 17:16 κόσμουκόσμου

    They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  14. John 17:18 κόσμονκόσμον

    As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

  15. John 17:21 κόσμος

    that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

  16. John 17:23 κόσμος

    I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

  17. John 17:24 κόσμου

    Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

  18. John 17:25 κόσμος

    Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

  19. John 18:20 κόσμῳ

    “I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.

  20. John 18:36 κόσμουκόσμου

    Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”

  21. John 18:37 κόσμον

    “Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”

  22. John 21:25 κόσμον

    There are many more things that Jesus did. If all of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself would have space for the books that would be written.

  23. Acts 17:24 κόσμον

    The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

  24. Romans 1:8 κόσμῳ

    First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

  25. Romans 1:20 κόσμου

    For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

  26. Romans 3:6 κόσμον

    Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

  27. Romans 3:19 κόσμος

    Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

  28. Romans 4:13 κόσμου

    For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

  29. Romans 5:12 κόσμον

    Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

  30. Romans 5:13 κόσμῳ

    For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

  31. Romans 11:12 κόσμου

    But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

  32. Romans 11:15 κόσμου

    For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

  33. 1 Corinthians 1:20 κόσμου

    Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

  34. 1 Corinthians 1:21 κόσμος

    For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

  35. 1 Corinthians 1:27 κόσμουκόσμου

    But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

  36. 1 Corinthians 1:28 κόσμου

    He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

  37. 1 Corinthians 2:12 κόσμου

    We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

  38. 1 Corinthians 3:19 κόσμου

    For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

  39. 1 Corinthians 3:22 κόσμος

    whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

  40. 1 Corinthians 4:9 κόσμῳ

    For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

  41. 1 Corinthians 4:13 κόσμου

    when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

  42. 1 Corinthians 5:10 κόσμουκόσμου

    I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

  43. 1 Corinthians 6:2 κόσμονκόσμος

    Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

  44. 1 Corinthians 7:31 κόσμονκόσμου

    and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

  45. 1 Corinthians 7:33 κόσμου

    But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,

  46. 1 Corinthians 7:34 κόσμου

    and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

  47. 1 Corinthians 8:4 κόσμῳ

    So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

  48. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

  49. Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

  50. 2 Corinthians 1:12 κόσμῳ

    And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

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