'World' in the Bible

and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, 'And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;'

For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,

for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth;