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Worlds of the World

Old Testament
Ref. 8398 (35x) tebel - the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extens. the globe; by impl. its inhabitants; spec. a partic. land, as Babylon, Pal. : ---habitable part, world

Ref. 2465 (2x) cheled - from an unused root appart. mean. to glide swiftly; life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence the world (as transient): --age, short time, world.

Ref.776 (4x) 'erets - from an unused root prob. mean. to be firm; the earth (at large, or partively a land):--x common, country, earth, field, ground, land, x nations, way, + wilderness, world.

Ref. 5769 (4x) 'olam - prop. concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; gen. time out of mind (past or fut.), i.e. (practically) eternity; freq. adv. (espec. with prep. pref.) always:--alway (-s), ancient (time), any more, contiuance, eternal, (for, [n-]) ever (-lasting, - more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end).

Ref. 2309 (1x) chedel - rest, i.e. the state of the dead;--world

New Testament

Ref. 2889 (185x) kosmos - orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration, by impl. the world (in a wide or narrow sense, includ. its inhab., lit. or fig. [mor.]:--adorning, world

Ref. 165 (39x) aion - prop. an age; by extens. perpetuity (also past); by impl. the world; spec. (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future): --age, course, eternal, (for) ever (-more), [n-]ever, (beginning of the, whike the) world (began, without end).

Ref. 3625 (14x) oikoumen - land, i.e. the (terrene part of the) globe; spec. the Roman empire:-- earth, world

Ref. 1093 (1x) ge - contr. from a prim. word; soil; by extens. a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (includ. the occpants in each application): --country, earth (-ly), ground, land, world.

Ref. 166 (3x) aionios - perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well):--eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).

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