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|astxt=[[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;] <br /><b class="num">1.</b>[[order]] (Hom., Plat., al.). <br /><b class="num">2.</b>[[ornament]], [[adornment]], esp. of women (Hom., al.): I Pe 3:3. <br /><b class="num">3.</b>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. <br /><b class="num">4.</b>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.,<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>of the [[human]] inhabitants of the [[world]]: Mt 5:14 15:38, 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.; <br /><b class="num">(b)</b>of [[worldly]] affairs or possessions: Mt 16:26, Mk 8:36, Lk 9:25, I Co 7:31, I Jo 2:16, al.; <br /><b class="num">(c)</b>in [[ethical]] [[sense]], of the [[ungodly]]: Jo 7:7 14:17, 27 I Co 1:21, Ja 1:27, I Jo 4:4, al.; <br /><b class="num">(d)</b>metaph.: ὁ κ. τῆς ἀδικίας, Ja 3:6. SYN.: [[αἰών]], q.v. (cf . [[also]] Dalman, Words, 162ff.; Tr., Syn., §lix; Westc., [[additional]] [[note]] on Jo 1:10; DB, iv, 938ff.).