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)

order; ornament; adornment; world; universe; the world; the earth