Word study · Greek
kosmos
world, order
Say it: KOS-mos (approximate)
κόσμος
What it means
The world, the created order, and humanity, and also the world in rebellion against God. John uses it about eighty times, more than any other Gospel. God loves the world (3:16), the world doesn't know him (1:10), Jesus has overcome the world (16:33), and he asks that the world may believe (17:21).
Range of meaning
- WorldThe created universe.
- HumanityThe human world.
- The world systemHuman society opposed to God.
In John
- Chapter 17
"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world" (17:5-25).
Every verse (58)
- John 1:9
- John 1:10
- John 1:29
- John 3:16
- John 3:17
- John 3:19
- John 4:42
- John 6:14
- John 6:33
- John 6:51
- John 7:4
- John 7:7
- John 8:12
- John 8:23
- John 8:26
- John 9:5
- John 9:39
- John 10:36
- John 11:9
- John 11:27
- John 12:19
- John 12:25
- John 12:31
- John 12:46
- John 12:47
- John 13:1
- John 14:17
- John 14:19
- John 14:22
- John 14:27
- John 14:30
- John 14:31
- John 15:18
- John 15:19
- John 16:8
- John 16:11
- John 16:20
- John 16:21
- John 16:28
- John 16:33
- John 17:5
- John 17:6
- John 17:9
- John 17:11
- John 17:12
- John 17:13
- John 17:14
- John 17:15
- John 17:16
- John 17:18
- John 17:21
- John 17:23
- John 17:24
- John 17:25
- John 18:20
- John 18:36
- John 18:37
- John 21:25
Verses where G2889 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources