The word commonly so rendered in the O.T. is tebel, signifying ‘the habitable earth:’ it is an expression of limited bearing, applied to that sphere which comes more directly under divine dealings. Psa 90:2; and to the inhabitants, who will be judged. Psa 9:8. The word in the N.T. answering to the above, is : its various applications can be seen in Luk 2:1; Act 11:28; Act 17:6; Act 17:31; Act 19:27; Heb 2:5. In the last passage it is the coming world, that is, that which is put under the Son of Man, that is spoken of.<\/p>\n
In the N.T. is the more general word, which in Greek writers signifies ‘order, regularity, ornament’; it is translated ‘adorning’ in 1Pe 3:3. The heaven and the earth, because of their order and beauty, are called cosmos , ‘the world.’ This word is employed for ‘world ‘ in its various meanings, as for instance the material earth, Rom 1:20; the inhabitants of the world that will be judged, Rom 3:6; and in a moral sense as the condition and spirit which is opposed to God. 1Co 2:12; Jam 4:4; 1Jn 2:16.<\/p>\n
Another word, , ‘age, duration,’ is applied both to the present age, the course of this world, and to age-enduring, or eternity, Rom 12:2; Gal 1:4; Eph 1:21; Eph 6:12. With a preposition it is translated ‘for ever,’ and when the word is repeated, ‘for ever and ever,’ or ‘to the ages of ages.’ 2Co 9:9; Gal 1:5; Php 4:20; 1Ti 1:17, etc. In two passages this word refers to the material worlds. Heb 1:2; Heb 11:3.<\/p>\n
World, The The word commonly so rendered in the O.T. is tebel, signifying ‘the habitable earth:’ it is an expression of limited bearing, applied to that sphere which comes more directly under divine dealings. Psa 90:2; and to the inhabitants, who will be judged. Psa 9:8. The word in the N.T. answering to the above, … Continue reading “World, The”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}