κόσμος

κόσμος, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX: 1 Mos 2,1, 5 Mos 4,19; 17,3, Es 24,21; 40,26 (צבא), 2 Mos 33,5, 6 Jer 2,32; 4,30, Ezk 7,20; 16,11; 23,40 (עֲדִי), Es 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.): 1 Pet 3,3,

3. Later, the world or universe, as an ordered system (Plat., al.): ApG 17,24, Rom 4,13, 1 Kor 3,22, Fil 2,15, Hebr 4,3, al.

4. In late writers only, the world, i.e. the earth (= ἡ οἰκουμένη, cf. Matt 4,8 with Luk 4,5): Matt 4,8, Mrk.16:[15], Kol 2,20, 1 Tim 6,7, al.; hence by meton.,

(a) of the human inhabitants of the world: Matt 5,14; 15,38, Mark 14,9, Joh 1,10; 4,42; 12,47, Rom 3,6, 1 Kor 4,13, 2 Kor 5,19, 2 Pet 2,5, al.;

(b) of worldly affairs or possessions: Matt 16,26, Mark 8,36, Luk 9,25, 1 Kor 7,31, 1 Joh 2,16, al.;

(with) in ethical sense, of the ungodly: Joh 7,7; 14,17, 27 1 Kor 1,21, Jak 1,27, 1 Joh 4,4, al.;

(d) metaphorically: ὁ κ. τῆς ἀδικίας, Jak 3,6,

SYN.: αἰών, which see (cf . also Dalman, Words, 162ff.; Tr., Syn., §lix; Westc., additional note on Joh 1,10 DB, iv, 938ff.).