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Strong's G2889 κόσμος (kosmos)

Kosmos means “world” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2889 — tahor (“clean”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2889
Language Greek
Linked Usages 219
Books 36

Strong's G2889 Quick Answer

Strong's G2889 κόσμου is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kosmos (kos'-mos) n. 1. orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration 2. (by implication) the world including its inhabitants It has 219 linked Bible usages across 36 books. Visible English usage signals include world. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
kosmos (kos'-mos) n. 1. orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration 2. (by implication) the world including its inhabitants
Usage
219 linked usages
Books
36 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
world

Meaning and Definition

kosmos (kos'-mos) n. 1. orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration 2. (by implication) the world including its inhabitants {literally or figuratively (morally), by implication "world" in a wide or narrow se

Original Word
κόσμου
Morphology
N-GSM

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2889. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

world

Usage: 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)

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How Strong's G2889 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's G2889, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

world Matthew 4:8 94×

How Strong's G2889 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 152 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2889 (κόσμου) appears 69 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2889 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2889 in the New Testament

152 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 4:8 KJV

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

Matthew 5:14 KJV

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Matthew 13:35 KJV

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Strong's G2889 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

26 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 2:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.

Exodus 33:5 Septuagint / Brenton

For the Lord said to the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; take heed lest I bring on you another plague, and destroy you: now then put off your glorious apparel, and your ornaments, and I will show thee what I will do to thee.

Exodus 33:6 Septuagint / Brenton

So the sons of Israel took off their ornaments and their array at the mount of Horeb.

Strong's G2889 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

40 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G2889 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2889.

Genesis 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.
Exodus 33:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord said to the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; take heed lest I bring on you another plague, and destroy you: now then put off your glorious apparel, and your ornaments, and I will show thee what I will do to thee.
Exodus 33:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the sons of Israel took off their ornaments and their array at the mount of Horeb.
Deuteronomy 4:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.
Deuteronomy 17:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,
2 Kingdoms 1:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, Who clothed you with scarlet together with your adorning, Who added golden ornaments to your apparel.
Proverbs 17:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Children’s children are the crown of old men; And their fathers are the glory of children. But the faithless not even a farthing.
Proverbs 20:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And gray hairs are the glory of old men.
Proverbs 35:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 36:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 3:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents,
Isaiah 3:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,
Isaiah 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,
Isaiah 3:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, thou shalt gird thyself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, thou shalt have baldness on account of thy works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, thou shalt gird thyself with sackcloth.
Isaiah 3:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.
Isaiah 13:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.
Isaiah 24:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God shall bring his hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.
Isaiah 40:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.
Isaiah 49:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lift up thine eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and are come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt clothe thyself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on as a bride her attire.
Isaiah 61:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a miter on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.
Jeremiah 2:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 4:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, and adorn thyself with golden ornaments; though thou adorn thine eyes with stibium, thy beauty will be in vain: thy lovers have rejected thee, they seek thy life.
Ezekiel 7:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.
Ezekiel 16:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a necklace on thy neck.
Ezekiel 23:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thine eyes and adorn thyself with ornaments,
Nahum 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels.
Matthew 4:8 New Testament, KJV
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Matthew 5:14 New Testament, KJV
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Matthew 13:35 New Testament, KJV
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 13:38 New Testament, KJV
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
Matthew 16:26 New Testament, KJV
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew 18:7 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Matthew 24:21 New Testament, KJV
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Matthew 25:34 New Testament, KJV
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Matthew 26:13 New Testament, KJV
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Mark 8:36 New Testament, KJV
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 14:9 New Testament, KJV
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Mark 16:15 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Luke 9:25 New Testament, KJV
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Luke 11:50 New Testament, KJV
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luke 12:30 New Testament, KJV
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
John 1:9 New Testament, KJV
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John 1:10 New Testament, KJV
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
John 1:29 New Testament, KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 3:16 New Testament, KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:17 New Testament, KJV
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:19 New Testament, KJV
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 4:42 New Testament, KJV
And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
John 6:14 New Testament, KJV
Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
John 6:33 New Testament, KJV
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6:51 New Testament, KJV
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 7:4 New Testament, KJV
For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
John 7:7 New Testament, KJV
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 8:12 New Testament, KJV
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 8:23 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
John 8:26 New Testament, KJV
I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
John 9:5 New Testament, KJV
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
John 9:39 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
John 10:36 New Testament, KJV
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
John 11:9 New Testament, KJV
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
John 11:27 New Testament, KJV
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
John 12:19 New Testament, KJV
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
John 12:25 New Testament, KJV
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 12:31 New Testament, KJV
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
John 12:46 New Testament, KJV
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
John 12:47 New Testament, KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
John 13:1 New Testament, KJV
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
John 14:17 New Testament, KJV
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:19 New Testament, KJV
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John 14:22 New Testament, KJV
Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
John 14:27 New Testament, KJV
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:30 New Testament, KJV
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
John 14:31 New Testament, KJV
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
John 15:18 New Testament, KJV
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:19 New Testament, KJV
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 16:8 New Testament, KJV
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
John 16:11 New Testament, KJV
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
John 16:20 New Testament, KJV
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
John 16:21 New Testament, KJV
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John 16:28 New Testament, KJV
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 16:33 New Testament, KJV
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 17:5 New Testament, KJV
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
John 17:6 New Testament, KJV
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
John 17:9 New Testament, KJV
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
John 17:11 New Testament, KJV
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:12 New Testament, KJV
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:13 New Testament, KJV
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John 17:14 New Testament, KJV
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:15 New Testament, KJV
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John 17:16 New Testament, KJV
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:18 New Testament, KJV
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John 17:21 New Testament, KJV
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 17:23 New Testament, KJV
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:24 New Testament, KJV
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:25 New Testament, KJV
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
John 18:20 New Testament, KJV
Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
John 18:36 New Testament, KJV
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
John 18:37 New Testament, KJV
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John 21:25 New Testament, KJV
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Acts 17:24 New Testament, KJV
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Romans 1:8 New Testament, KJV
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Romans 1:20 New Testament, KJV
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 3:6 New Testament, KJV
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Romans 3:19 New Testament, KJV
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Romans 4:13 New Testament, KJV
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 5:12 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 5:13 New Testament, KJV
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Romans 11:12 New Testament, KJV
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans 11:15 New Testament, KJV
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
1 Corinthians 1:20 New Testament, KJV
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians 1:21 New Testament, KJV
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1 Corinthians 1:27 New Testament, KJV
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1 Corinthians 1:28 New Testament, KJV
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1 Corinthians 2:12 New Testament, KJV
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1 Corinthians 3:19 New Testament, KJV
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians 3:22 New Testament, KJV
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
1 Corinthians 4:9 New Testament, KJV
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
1 Corinthians 4:13 New Testament, KJV
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
1 Corinthians 5:10 New Testament, KJV
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 6:2 New Testament, KJV
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2889, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 9 usages, New Testament
Mark 3 usages, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
John 58 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 9 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 17 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 3 usages, New Testament
Galatians 2 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 3 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 3 usages, New Testament
1 Timothy 3 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 5 usages, New Testament
James 4 usages, New Testament
1 Peter 3 usages, New Testament
2 Peter 4 usages, New Testament
1 John 17 usages, New Testament
2 John 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
Judith 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 8 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 16 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 7 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2889 FAQ

What does kosmos (κόσμος) mean?

Kosmos (Strong's G2889) is a Greek word most simply glossed "world". kosmos (kos'-mos) n. 1. orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration 2. (by implication) the world including its inhabitants

How many times is kosmos (κόσμος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 219 linked usages for Strong's G2889 across 36 books.

Where can I study kosmos (κόσμος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2889 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate kosmos (κόσμος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as world. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2889 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 26 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 40 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2889, with linked reader references where each row is available.