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

1 Peter 5:9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being endured by your fellow believers throughout the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc).
2 Peter 1:4 by means of which he has freely given to us his precious and splendid promises, so that through them you may escape the corruption that is in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc) caused by sinful desire and become partakers of the divine nature.
2 Peter 2:5 and if he did not spare the ancient world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) (but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness) when he brought the deluge on an ungodly world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc);
2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become for them worse than the first.
2 Peter 3:6 By these the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) of that time was destroyed, being deluged with water.
1 John 2:2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the entire world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc).
1 John 2:15 Do not love the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) or the things in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc). If anyone loves the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc), the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc) — the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride of possession — is not from the Father but from the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc).
1 John 2:17 The world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) is passing away with all its desires, but the one who does the will of God remains forever.
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God — and so we are! The reason the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:13 So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) hates you.
1 John 3:17 But whoever has this world’s (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) resources and sees his fellow Christian in need yet closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
1 John 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to find out whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc).
1 John 4:3 but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc).
1 John 4:4 Little children, you have been born of God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc).
1 John 4:5 They are of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc); therefore they speak from the world’s (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) perspective and the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) listens to them.
1 John 4:9 By this the love of God is revealed to us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc).
1 John 4:17 By this, love is fully realized among us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because just as he is, so also are we in this world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc).
1 John 5:4 because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc). And this is the victorious power that has conquered the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) — our faith.
1 John 5:5 Who is it that conquers the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc), but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) lies in the power of the evil one.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc), people who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist!
Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.”
Revelation 13:8 And all those living on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc).