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κόσμος
kósmos · Greek · Strong's G2889 · 184 occurrences
The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew and Greek words as “world”
What it means
orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by implication, the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively (morally))
probably from the base of G2865 (κομίζω);
How the KJV renders it
adorning, world
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“world”
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Where it appears
184 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 1:20 · N-GSM
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians 1:21 · N-NSM
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:27 · N-GSM
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
1 Corinthians 1:28 · N-GSM
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
1 Corinthians 2:12 · N-GSM
But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 3:19 · N-GSM
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
1 Corinthians 3:22 N-NSM1 Corinthians 4:9 N-DSM1 Corinthians 4:13 N-GSM1 Corinthians 5:10 N-GSM1 Corinthians 6:2 N-ASM1 Corinthians 7:31 N-ASM1 Corinthians 7:33 N-GSM1 Corinthians 7:34 N-GSM1 Corinthians 8:4 N-DSM1 Corinthians 11:32 N-DSM1 Corinthians 14:10 N-DSM1 John 2:2 N-GSM1 John 2:15 N-ASM1 John 2:16 N-DSM1 John 2:17 N-NSM1 John 3:1 N-NSM1 John 3:13 N-NSM1 John 3:17 N-GSM1 John 4:1 N-ASM1 John 4:3 N-DSM1 John 4:4 N-DSM1 John 4:5 N-GSM1 John 4:9 N-ASM1 John 4:14 N-GSM1 John 4:17 N-DSM1 John 5:4 N-ASM1 John 5:5 N-ASM1 John 5:19 N-NSM1 Peter 1:20 N-GSM1 Peter 3:3 N-NSM1 Peter 5:9 N-DSM1 Timothy 1:15 N-ASM1 Timothy 3:16 N-DSM1 Timothy 6:7 N-ASM2 Corinthians 1:12 N-DSM2 Corinthians 5:19 N-ASM2 Corinthians 7:10 N-GSM2 John 1:7 N-ASM2 Peter 1:4 N-DSM2 Peter 2:5 N-DSM2 Peter 2:20 N-GSM2 Peter 3:6 N-NSMActs 17:24 N-ASMColossians 1:6 N-DSMColossians 2:8 N-GSMColossians 2:20 N-DSMEphesians 1:4 N-GSMEphesians 2:2 N-GSMEphesians 2:12 N-DSMGalatians 4:3 N-GSMGalatians 6:14 N-DSMHebrews 4:3 N-GSMHebrews 9:26 N-GSMHebrews 10:5 N-ASM
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