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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 3 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. Galatians 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

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  2. Galatians 6:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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  3. Ephesians 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

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  4. Ephesians 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

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  5. Ephesians 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

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  6. Philippians 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

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  7. Colossians 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.

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  8. Colossians 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

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  9. Colossians 2:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

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  10. 1 Timothy 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

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  11. 1 Timothy 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

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  12. 1 Timothy 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

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  13. Hebrews 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

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  14. Hebrews 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

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  15. Hebrews 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

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  16. Hebrews 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

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  17. Hebrews 11:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

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  18. James 1:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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  19. James 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

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  20. James 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

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  21. James 4:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

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  22. 1 Peter 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.

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  23. 1 Peter 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

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  24. 1 Peter 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

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  25. 2 Peter 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

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  26. 2 Peter 2:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

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  27. 2 Peter 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

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  28. 2 Peter 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

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  29. 1 John 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

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  30. 1 John 2:15 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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  31. 1 John 2:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

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  32. 1 John 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

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  33. 1 John 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

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  34. 1 John 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

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  35. 1 John 3:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

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  36. 1 John 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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  37. 1 John 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

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  38. 1 John 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

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  39. 1 John 4:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

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  40. 1 John 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

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  41. 1 John 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

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  42. 1 John 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.

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  43. 1 John 5:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

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  44. 1 John 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

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  45. 1 John 5:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

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  46. 2 John 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

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  47. Revelation 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

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  48. Revelation 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

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  49. Revelation 17:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.

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