Words the Bible translates as world
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- aiōnαἰώνan age: a stretch of time, from a bounded era to unending duration, and the world seen as the present order running its course
- kosmosκόσμοςthe earth where people live, and by extension all the people who live on it; the human world.
+3 more meanings
- the universe, the whole ordered creation that God made and rules.
- human society as it has turned away from God: the whole order of life, values, and powers set against him.
- outward adornment, the things put on to make oneself attractive.
- oikoumenēοἰκουμένηthe inhabited world: the earth as the place where people live, along with its people and its governing order
- tevelתֵּבֵלthe world: the whole habitable, fruitful earth, seen as the ordered realm God founded and the peopled stage of human life
- ḥeledחֶלֶדlifetime/worldnot studied yet
- ḥedelחֶדֶלworldnot studied yet
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