Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
19 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “world” →
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
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.
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.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
The earth is the LORD’s , and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Let all the earth fear the LORD : let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
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.
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.
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Before the LORD ; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.