κόσμος

186 κόσμος , -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Ge 2:1 , De 4:19 17:3 , Is 24:21 40:26 ( צבא ), Ex 33:5 , 6 , Je 2:32 4:30 , Ez 7:20 16:11 23:40 ( עֲדִי ), Is 61:10 ( כְּלִי ), al., Wi 2:24 and freq., Si 6:30 , al;] order (Hom., Plat., al.). ornament , adornment , esp. of women (Hom., al.): I Pe 3:3 . Later, the world or universe , as an ordered system (Plat., al.): Ac 17:24 , Ro 4:13 , I Co 3:22 , Phl 2:15 , He 4:3 , al. In late writers only, the world , i.e. the earth (= ἡ οἰκουμένη , cf. Mt 4:8 with Lk 4:5 ): Mt 4:8 , Mk 16:[15] , Col 2:20 , I Ti 6:7 , al.; hence by meton., of the human inhabitants of the world: Mt 5:14 13:38 , Mk 14:9 , Jo 1:10 4:42 12:47 , Ro 3:6 , I Co 4:13 , II Co 5:19 , II Pe 2:5 , al.; of worldly affairs or possessions: Mt 16:26 , Mk 8:36 , Lk 9:25 , I Co 7:31 , I Jo 2:16 , al.; in ethical sense, of the ungodly: Jo 7:7 14:17 , 27 , I Co 1:21 , Ja 1:27 , I Jo 4:4 , al.; metaph.: ὁ κ. τῆς ἀδικίας , Ja 3:6 . SYN. : αἰών , q.v. (cf . also Dalman, Words , 162 ff.; Tr., Syn. , § lix; Westc., additional note on Jo 1:10 ; DB , iv, 938 ff.).