κόσμος

kovsmo" kovsmo",
kovsmou,
oJ;1. in Greek writings from Homer down, an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, or der.2. as in Greek writings from Homer down, ornament, decoration, adornment:
ejnduvsew"
iJmativwn, (; ; ; the Septuagint for ab;x; of the arrangement of the stars, `the heavenly hosts,' as the ornament of the heavens, ; ; ; ; ; besides occasionally for ydI[}; twice for tr,a,p]Ti, ; ).3. the world, i. e. the universe (quem
kovsmon Graeci nomine ornamenti appellarunt, eum nos a perfecta absolutaque elegantia mundum, Pliny, h. n. 2, 3; in which sense Pythagoras is said to have been the first to use the word, Plutarch, de plac. philos. 2, 1, 1, p. 886 c.; but according to other accounts he used it of the heavens, Diogenes La?rtius 8, 48, of which it is used several times also by other Greek writers (see Menag. on Diogenes La?rtius, the passage cited; Bentley, Epistles of Phalaris, vol. i., 391 (Lond. 1886); M. Anton. 4, 27 and Gataker's notes; cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, IV.)): ; (where cf. Meyer, Tholuck, Philippi); ; ; Phil, ; with a predominant notion of space, in hyperbole, (Sap. ; ; ;
ktivzein
tovn
kovsmon, Sap. ;
oJ
tou'
kovsmou
ktivsth", ; (24); -- a sense in which it does not occur in the other O. T. books, although there is something akin to it in , on which see 8 below); in the phrases
prov
tou'
tovn
kovsmon
ei\nai, ;
ajpov
katabolh'"
kovsmou ( R G; ; ; ; ; ; ) and
prov
katabolh'"
kovsmou (; ; ) (on which see
katabolhv, 2);
ajpov
ktivsew"
kovsmou, ;
ajp!
ajrch'"
kovsmou, ; (on the omission of the article, cf. Winer's Grammar, p. 123 (117); Buttmann, sec. 124, 8 b.; (cf. Ellicott on Galatians, )).4. the circle of the earth, the earth (very rarely so in Greek writings until after the age of the Ptolemies; so in Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions i., pp. 413 and 643, nos. 334 and 1306): ; (); ;
basileiva
tou'
kovsmou, ;
basilei'ai (plural)
tou'
kovsmou, (for which
th'"
oijkoumevnh");
tov
fw'"
tou'
kovsmou
touvtou, of the sun, ;
ejn
o{lw/
tw'/
kovsmw/, properly, ; hyperbolically, equivalent to far and wide, in widely separated places, ; (so
ejn
pantiv
tw'/
kovsmw/, );
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