G2889

• {"n":"kosmos","s":"World. The root idea is order and arrangement, which is why it also gives cosmetics.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=kosmos","r":"John 3:16","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads world. No version distinguishes the senses."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Cosmos.** **Cosmetics.** Same root. One is the ordered universe and the other is putting a face in order. The idea underneath is arrangement."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Kosmos is an ordered arrangement, then the ordered universe, then the inhabited world, then the human system organised against God. John uses the last two senses close together and expects the reader to track it."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English world covers the planet and the social system, so the range survives, but the deliberate switching does not."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a writer uses one word in two opposed senses inside a paragraph, that is a rhetorical move, not sloppiness."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"World is universal in English versions."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 kosmos \u00b7 G2889"}],"src":["kosmos as the object of God's love: John 3:16","kosmos as the opposing system: 1 John 2:15-17","kosmos as arrangement: 1 Peter 3:3"]}