κόσμου

Detailed Definition

• 1an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government
• 2the whole circle of earthly goods, endowments riches, advantages, pleasures, etc, which although hollow and frail and fleeting, stir desire, seduce from god and are obstacles to the cause of christ
• 3ornament, decoration, adornment, i.e., the arrangement of the stars, 'the heavenly hosts', as the ornament of the heavens (see 1 peter 3:3)
• 4the world, the universe
• 5the circle of the earth, the earth
• 6the inhabitants of the earth, men, the human race
• 7the ungodly multitude; the whole mass of men alienated from god, and therefore hostile to the cause of christ
• 8world affairs, the aggregate of things earthly