Vocabulary Form
κόσμος, ου, -ὁ
Definition

world, universe; humankind

Erasmian
Modern
Root
κοσμο
Frequency
186
GK
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

Romans 3:6 By no means! For otherwise how could God judge the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc)?
Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) may be held accountable to God.
Romans 4:13 For the promise that he would be heir of (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned —.
Romans 5:13 For sin was in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc) before the law was given, but sin is not charged when there is no law.
Romans 11:12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
Romans 11:15 For if their rejection leads to the reconciliation of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise Where is the scholar? Where is the brilliant debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc)?
1 Corinthians 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) did not come to know God through wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) to shame the strong;
1 Corinthians 1:28 God chose the things that the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) considers insignificant and contemptible, what is regarded as nothing, to render useless the things that are,
1 Corinthians 2:12 It was not the spirit of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) that we received, but the Spirit sent from God, that we might understand the gifts freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) is folly with God. For it is written, “He traps the wise with their own craftiness.”
1 Corinthians 3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) or life or death or the present or the future — all are yours,
1 Corinthians 4:9 For it seems to me that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), both to angels and to men.
1 Corinthians 4:13 when slandered, we respond kindly. We have become, as it were, the scum of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), the refuse of all things, even now.
1 Corinthians 5:10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc).
1 Corinthians 6:2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc)? And if the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try minor cases?
1 Corinthians 7:31 and those who use the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) as though they were not absorbed in it. For the form of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) is passing away.
1 Corinthians 7:33 But a married man is concerned about the things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), how to please his wife,
1 Corinthians 7:34 and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), how to please her husband.
1 Corinthians 8:4 Therefore, as to the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol has no genuine reality” and that “there is no God but one.”
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being corrected by discipline, so that we will not be condemned along with the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc).
1 Corinthians 14:10 There are who-knows-how-many kinds of languages in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), and none is without meaning.
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our confidence is this, the testimony of our conscience, that with simplicity and sincerity like that of God, and not with earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), and all the more toward you.