noun · masculine
kosmokratōros
Strong’sG2888
ruler of this world
stem kosmokratōr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† κοσμοκράτωρ, -ορος, ὁ
(< κόσμος, κρατέω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2888 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
lord of the world, epithet of οὐρανός, Refs 5th c.AD+
2 of the Emperors, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 Astrology texts, ruler of the κόσμος, i.e. planet, Refs 2nd c.AD+; οἱ κ. τοῦ σκότους τούτου the cosmic rulers of this sinful world, NT+4th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kosmokratōros | kosmokratōrois |
| object accusative | kosmokratōron | kosmokratōroin1×κοσμοκράτορας |
| direct address vocative | kosmokratōror | kosmokratōroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kosmokratōrou | kosmokratōroiu |
| to, for dative | kosmokratōro | kosmokratōroi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kosmokratōro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
kosmokratōroin“cosmic powers”objectaccusative plural1×
Ephesians 6:12“cosmic powers”… archain, pros tain exousiain, pros toin kosmokratōroin teu skoteu houteu, pros teim pneumatikeim …… against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.