κόσμος | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

κόσμος, ου, -ὁ

Definition

world, universe; humankind

Erasmian

Modern

Root

κοσμο

Frequency

186

3180

Cognates

Cosmology is the philosophical study of the universe.

Mnemonics

Cosmic, man! Out of this world!

Mnemonic Singing

Joy to the world, the Lord is come;
let earth receive her king.

Song

Verse

“For God so loved the κόσμος that he gave his one and only Son.” (John 3:16)

Biblical Concordance

John 16:11	in regard to judgment, because the ruler of this world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc) has been condemned.
John 16:20	I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, and the world (kosmos \| κόσμος \| nom sg masc) will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
John 16:21	When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come; but when the baby is born, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a child has been born into the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc).
John 16:28	I came forth from the Father and have entered into the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc); now I am leaving the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc) and going back to the Father.”
John 16:33	I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world (kosmō \| κόσμῳ \| dat sg masc) you will have tribulation, but take courage, I have conquered the world.” (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc)
John 17:5	and now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory that I had with you before the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc) began.
John 17:6	“I have made your name known to the men you gave me out of the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc). They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
John 17:9	I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc), but for those whom you have given to me, for they are yours;
John 17:11	I am no longer in the world (kosmō \| κόσμῳ \| dat sg masc), but they are in the world (kosmō \| κόσμῳ \| dat sg masc), and I am on my way to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, the name that you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
John 17:13	But now I am on my way to you, and I am saying these things while still in the world (kosmō \| κόσμῳ \| dat sg masc) that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
John 17:14	I have given them your word, and the world (kosmos \| κόσμος \| nom sg masc) has hated them because they do not belong to the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc), just as I do not belong to the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc).
John 17:15	I am not asking that you take them out of the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc), but that you protect them from the evil one.
John 17:16	They do not belong to the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc), just as I do not belong to the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc).
John 17:18	As you sent me into the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc), I also have sent them into the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc).
John 17:21	that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world (kosmos \| κόσμος \| nom sg masc) may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:23	I in them and you in me, that they may be completely one, so that the world (kosmos \| κόσμος \| nom sg masc) may know that you sent me, and that you love them even as you love me.
John 17:24	Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, so they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc).
John 17:25	Righteous Father, although the world (kosmos \| κόσμος \| nom sg masc) does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
John 18:20	Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world (kosmō \| κόσμῳ \| dat sg masc). I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.
John 18:36	Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc); if my kingdom were of this world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc), my subjects would be fighting to prevent me from being handed over to the Jews; but as it is my kingdom is not from here.”
John 18:37	Therefore Pilate said to him, “So you are a king, then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king! The reason for which I was born and have come into the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc), is that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John 21:25	Now there are many other things which Jesus did as well; if they were written down one after the other, I imagine that not even the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc) itself could contain the books that would be written.
Acts 17:24	The God who made the world (kosmon \| κόσμον \| acc sg masc) and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,
Romans 1:8	First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world (kosmō \| κόσμῳ \| dat sg masc).
Romans 1:20	Ever since the creation of the world (kosmou \| κόσμου \| gen sg masc), his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made. So they are without excuse.