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kosmos G2889

κόσμος (kosmos) means “world” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

κόσμος Greek · G2889 184 tagged occurrences in 149 verses

Pronunciation guide: kos'-mos Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2889

κόσμος · kosmos · 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.; (with) 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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Dodson Greek Lexicon

the world, universe; worldly affairs; the inhabitants of the world; adornment.

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How translators render G2889

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
world 149
of the world 14
the world 9
whole world 2
adornment 1
earth 1
earthly 1
for the world 1
it 1
of this world 1
on its 1
this world 1
to the world 1
worldly 1
worlds 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the world 103
of the world 37
world 30
the 5
unto the world 5
of 3
to the world 2
a world 1
adorning 1
even the world 1
of this world 1
that are of the world 1
this worlds 1
upon the world 1

Verses containing G2889

Page 2 of 3. 149 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. John 16:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. John 16:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

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

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  3. John 16:33 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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!”

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  4. John 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  5. John 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. John 17:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. John 17:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  8. John 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  9. John 17:14 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    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.

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  10. John 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  11. John 17:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

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

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  12. John 17:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

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

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  13. John 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  14. John 17:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  15. John 17:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  16. John 17:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  17. John 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  18. John 18:36 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.”

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  19. John 18:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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  20. John 21:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  21. Acts 17:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  22. Romans 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  23. Romans 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  24. Romans 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  25. Romans 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  26. Romans 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  27. Romans 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  28. Romans 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  29. Romans 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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!

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  30. Romans 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  31. 1 Corinthians 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  32. 1 Corinthians 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  33. 1 Corinthians 1:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  34. 1 Corinthians 1:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  35. 1 Corinthians 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  36. 1 Corinthians 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  37. 1 Corinthians 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  38. 1 Corinthians 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  39. 1 Corinthians 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  40. 1 Corinthians 5:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  41. 1 Corinthians 6:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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?

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  42. 1 Corinthians 7:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  43. 1 Corinthians 7:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  44. 1 Corinthians 7:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  45. 1 Corinthians 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  46. 1 Corinthians 11:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  47. 1 Corinthians 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  48. 2 Corinthians 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For 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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  49. 2 Corinthians 5:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

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  50. 2 Corinthians 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

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