405 occurrences in 13 translations

'World' in the Bible

God looked on the earth and saw how debased and degenerate it was, for all humanity had corrupted their way on the earth and lost their true direction.

Verse ConceptsCorruption, Of HumanityEvil TimesGod Seeing The WickedMan's Sinful NatureAll Have Sinnedcorruption

That is why its name was called Babel -- because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfScattering The PeoplesLanguages SeparatedLanguage

Abram said, “Lord God, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?”

Verse ConceptsAbrahamMoney, Stewardship OfWhat God Gives

Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of SexFirstborn DaughtersNo One AvailableUnpremeditatedFather And Daughter Relationships

Then Abimelech exclaimed, "What in the world have you done to us? One of the men might easily have had sexual relations with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

But Isaac asked his son, "How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?" "Because the Lord your God brought it to me," he replied.

Verse ConceptsPeople OvercomingWork Soon Done

In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What in the world have you done to me! Didn't I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?"

Verse ConceptsMorningWhat Do You Do?Those Who Deceived

All his sons and daughters showed up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He kept saying, "Leave me alone! I'll go down to the next world, still mourning for my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldSheolWeepingComfort, Of FriendsParental LoveAfflicted To DeathNo Comfort

Every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses Of

He said to his brothers, "My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!" They were dismayed; they turned trembling one to another and said, "What in the world has God done to us?"

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionIndividuals TremblingWhat Does God Do?Indeterminate Sums Of MoneyOther Sad People

He said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us."

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfInvitationsHospitalityTravellersWhere Are People?

When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said, "What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Changing Their MindsIsrael FleeingTelling Of Movements

and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathWhat Do You Do?

But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said, "Why in the world did you bring us up out of Egypt -- to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersFaultsComplaintsMiracles, Responses ToResentment, Against GodSelf PityWaterDiscontentGrumbling At PeopleComplaining

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as he had done each time before [superstitiously] to seek omens and signs [in the natural world], but he set his face toward the wilderness (desert).

Verse ConceptsGod Blesses

When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars -- the whole heavenly creation -- you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the Lord your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyPlanetsMoonSkyStarsThe SunIdolatry Consists OfDo Not Have Other godsIdolatrous Worship Of The MoonWorship Of The SunSunWorshiping TogetherSunshineThe Moonadoration

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsEarth, Belonging To GodDust, Figurative UseGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPrincesThroneGloryGod And The PoorMetaphorical PillarsGod Lifting PeopleRubbishGod Helps The PoorThe poordust

Today, the Lord will hand you over to me. Today, I’ll strike you down, cut your head off, and give the corpses of the Philistine camp to the birds of the sky and the creatures of the earth. Then all the world will know that Israel has a God,

Verse ConceptsKnowing God, Nature OfBirds, Types Of BirdsBeheadingAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesSkullsWild Animals DevouringMammalsTo Be Given Into One's Hands

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreath Of GodEarth, Judgment OfNosesSeaEarth's FoundationCreation Of The SeasReproving ThingsGod Requite Them!

King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the world in riches and in wisdom.

Verse ConceptsKings And WisdomWealthy PeopleWealth And Prosperity

The whole world wanted an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman IntellectThose Looking For People

Then Naaman and his whole company went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “I know there’s no God in the whole world except in Israel. Therefore, please accept a gift from your servant.”

Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofNo Other Is GodMan Of God

Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel who lives [above] the cherubim. You [are] God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Creation OfHeaven And EarthJudgment SeatKingdomsUniverseNo Other Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

Verse ConceptsEarth Being Fixed And ImmovableFlat Earth

Also, established is the world, It is not moved! The heavens rejoice, and the earth is glad, And they say among nations: Jehovah hath reigned.

Verse ConceptsAngels RejoicingGod, Sovereignty OfKingdom Of God, Coming OfKingship, Divine

Then let the trees in the forest sing out in praise, for the LORD is coming to judge the world.

Verse ConceptsForestsJudgesThe Nature Of The Judgement

All the kings of the world wanted an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

Verse ConceptsAbortionConceptionRegretting BirthOther Times

“No doubt you are the [only wise] people [in the world],And wisdom will die with you!

Verse ConceptsIrony

He withdraws understanding from national leaders of the world, causing them to wander through uncharted wilderness.

Verse ConceptsWanderersFoolishness Of Men

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

Verse ConceptsHillsPeople Beginning

"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world.

Verse ConceptsTirednessWeary Of God

“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],When God takes his life?

Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedHopelessnessHope, Nature OfUngodlinessFalse HopesWithout HopeDeath Of The WickedHypocrisy

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

Verse ConceptsUseless PeopleLooking At God's Works

"But from where will wisdom be found? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

Verse ConceptsStudyWhere Are Things?Wisdom

Indeed, from where does wisdom come? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

Could one who hates justice govern the world?Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,

Verse ConceptsGod Is JustIs God Unjust?Work Ethic

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Verse ConceptsTurning RoundguidanceDirectionWisdom And GuidanceWeather In The Last Daysaccomplishmentweather

“Whether for correction, or for His world,Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

Verse ConceptsWaterCaused By GodEverything Happening For A ReasonWeather In The Last Daysweather

“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty],And array yourself with honor and majesty.

Verse ConceptsClothed With Good Thingsdignity

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod, Righteousness OfJustification, Necessity OfPrayer, And Worshipfairness

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionLimitednessBabiesThriftSins Of The FathersLack Of HolinessFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

The world shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains quaked, they shook because he was angry.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsearthquakesMountainsEarth's FoundationGod Has Anger

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodNosesEarth's FoundationCreation Of The SeasReproving ThingsGod Requite Them!breathing

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

Verse ConceptsMusic

You will prolong the king’s life [adding days upon days];His years will be like many generations.

Verse ConceptsLiving Long

Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

Verse ConceptsKingsKingship, DivineMission, Of IsraelMissionsEarth Being Fixed And ImmovableFlat Earth

Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodThe Nature Of The JudgementThe Fact Of His Comingfairness

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Verse ConceptsThe Sea Stirred UpThe OceanThe Sea

Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeLast JudgmentPunishment, By GodThe Fact Of His Comingfairness

He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses;He will crush leaders over the entire world.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeChrist Judging

From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

Verse ConceptsGod, The EternalGod Being Of OldGod Existing Before Timeeternity

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

Verse ConceptsIn The Beginning

I was rejoicing in His inhabited world,delighting in the human race.

Verse ConceptsMan's Relation To GodRace

But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHell, Punishment OfIgnorance Of EvilSinners Grasped By Death

Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

Verse ConceptsOblivionOvertaken By DarknessUseless PeopleMiscarriages And Stillborn

While applying my mind to everything that happens in this world, I have seen all this: Sometimes one person dominates other people to their harm.

Verse ConceptsLording ItUnder The SunHurt

Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you're going.

Verse ConceptsAboundingAgingIndustryLaborFervourDeath, Preparation ForZealPhysical LabourHard LaborState Of The DeadDeathCareer SuccessOpportunityDoing Your BestSuccess And Hard WorkWorking Hard And Not Being Lazyhardwork

"Sing praises to the LORD, because he has acted gloriously, being made known in all the world.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfPraiseGod's Glory RevealedGod's Deed RevealedExcellence

"The afterlife below is all astir to meet you when you arrive; it rouses up the spirits of the dead to greet you everyone who used to be world leaders. It has raised up from their thrones all who used to be kings of the nations.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheGreetingsSpiritsThroneDeath Of The Wickedwelcome

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCities Under AttackImprisonments

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheFruits Of SinParents SinSins Of The FathersMassacresDadsGuilt

All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseTrumpetTrumpets For SignallingFlags

And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

Verse ConceptsHiring70 To 80 YearsGod Visiting

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Verse ConceptsHaughtinessTransient WorldMourning Due To Catastrophe

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Desiresdiscipleship, nature ofLonging For GodEarth, Judgment OfNightPrayer, As A Relationship With GodThirstAfflictions, Benefits Of

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelWindBirth Not Being PossibleHaving A Babydeliverancechildbearing

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Verse ConceptsBlossomFilling PlacesRootsPotential Of FruitGod's People PlantedRoses

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To God!attention

I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Verse ConceptsNot Seeing God

Sing to the Lord a new song,Sing His praise from the end of the earth!You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,You islands and coastlands, and those who inhabit them [sing His praise]!

Verse ConceptsNew ThingsMarinersAttitudes Of PraiseIslandsPraisePraise, Manner And Methods OfPraise, Reasons ForSongsSea DwellersA New SongThe End Of The World

One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersArguingClaySurrenderingPresumptionPotteryAuthority, Belonging To GodAnimositySuing GodWoe To The WickedMan's Relationship With His Creatorstriving

Danger awaits one who says to his father, "What in the world are you fathering?" and to his mother, "What in the world are you bringing forth?"

Verse ConceptsRespect, For Human BeingsConceptionBirthSolar EclipseFather And Daughter Relationshipsfatherhoodparenthood

But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Verse ConceptsGod, The EternalSalvation, Described AsEternal DeliveranceGod Saves The NeedyNot Put To ShameBeing Savedeternityisrael

Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The Lord summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.

Verse ConceptsAbortionUnborn FetusesIslandsSanctity Of LifeCalling, Of IndividualsGod Naming PeopleFrom The WombPay Attention To God!

Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Verse ConceptsReward, For God's PeopleGod's Salvation Made KnownProclaimingMessianic Prophecies

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of GodEarsInsightScripture, UnderstandingVeilsAbundance, SpiritualHearing God's VoiceNot Seeing GodNo Other Is GodGod's Work In Us

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
αἰώνιος 
Aionios 
Usage: 47

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

חלד 
Cheled 
age , world , time
Usage: 5

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

תּבל 
Tebel 
Usage: 36

αἰών 
Aion 
Usage: 101

γῆ 
Ge 
Usage: 186

κοσμικός 
Kosmikos 
Usage: 2

κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109

οἰκουμένη 
Oikoumene 
Usage: 12

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