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κόσμος

Transliteration kosmos		Pronunciation ko'-smos (Key)
Part of Speech masculine noun		Root Word (Etymology) Probably from the base of κομίζω (G2865)
TDNT Reference 3:868,459	Vines View Entry

1) an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government

2) ornament, decoration, adornment, i.e. the arrangement of the stars, 'the heavenly hosts', as the ornament of the heavens. 1 Pet. 3:3

3) the world, the universe

4) the circle of the earth, the earth

5) the inhabitants of the earth, men, the human family

6) the ungodly multitude; the whole mass of men alienated from God, and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ

7) world affairs, the aggregate of things earthly

a) the 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

8) any aggregate or general collection of particulars of any sort

a) the Gentiles as contrasted to the Jews (Rom. 11:12 etc)

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Strong's Number G2889 matches the Greek κόσμος (kosmos), which occurs 9 times in 9 verses in Rom of the Greek concordance of the KJV
Page 1 / 1 (Rom 1:8 - Rom 11:15)
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Rom 1:8	First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world²⁸⁸⁹.
Rom 1:20	For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world²⁸⁸⁹ are clearly seen , being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 3:6	God forbid : for then how shall God judge the world²⁸⁸⁹?
Rom 3:19	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 world²⁸⁸⁹ may become guilty before God.
Rom 4:13	For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world²⁸⁸⁹, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 5:12	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world²⁸⁸⁹, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned :
Rom 5:13	(For until the law sin was in the world²⁸⁸⁹: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom 11:12	Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world²⁸⁸⁹, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Rom 11:15	For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world²⁸⁸⁹, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?

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