World names the earth or its inhabited reach as the sentence presents it, with surrounding speech establishing what is asserted. Psalm 24 names the world and its dwellers as the Lord's, while Psalm 9 joins judgment of the world with justice, equity and refuge for the oppressed.
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World names the earth or its inhabited reach as the sentence presents it, with surrounding speech establishing what is asserted. Psalm 24 names the world and its dwellers as the Lord's, while Psalm 9 joins judgment of the world with justice, equity and refuge for the oppressed.
The BSB source-word alignment has 36 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include the world (19), of the world (7), The earth (2), . . . (1), and the world (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Samuel 2:8. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (15), Isaiah (9), Job (3), Jeremiah (2).
World names the earth or its inhabited reach as the sentence presents it, with surrounding speech establishing what is asserted. Psalm 24 names the world and its dwellers as the Lord's, while Psalm 9 joins judgment of the world with justice, equity and refuge for the oppressed. Psalm 50 rejects the idea that God depends on supplied food, and Psalm 90 places the world beside God's everlasting existence and human mortality.
Isaiah's announced judgment also uses world language within its burden against Babylon and its explicit charge against evil and arrogance. These settings do not permit a teacher to infer the guilt of every sufferer or turn poetic statements into a complete physical model. Read ownership, justice, divine sufficiency or mortality in the passage's actual voice, retaining its scope without assigning modern borders or a current disaster's cause from the noun alone.
Ownership, equitable judgment, divine sufficiency, enduring reign, everlasting existence and announced judgment describe the world through different arguments. Its named inhabitants and the speaker's stated claims remain central.
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
The Psalm names the world and all its dwellers as the Lord's, preserving the people beside the earth rather than treating the statement as private ownership permission.
He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
Judgment of the world is explicitly joined to justice and equity, with refuge for the oppressed following in the same praise.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
God's ownership of the world appears in a rejection of supposed dependence on sacrificial food, leading toward thanks and fulfilled vows rather than divine need.
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Hebrew word. Earth conceived as habitable and sustaining life, emphasizing moisture and fertility rather than mere geography.
Earth conceived as habitable and sustaining life, emphasizing moisture and fertility rather than mere geography.
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia, Palestine BDB: world Usage: habitable part, world.
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The world's relation to the Lord is expressed through several distinct arguments. Psalm 24 includes all its dwellers in divine ownership, so the statement should not be used as permission for a person or institution to seize what it wants. Psalm 9 expressly joins judgment with equity and refuge for the oppressed, keeping moral character and care visible. Psalm 50 denies that God needs human-supplied food, while Psalm 90 contrasts everlasting divine existence with human mortality.
Psalm 96's established-world language occurs in praise of the Lord's reign and equitable judgment, whose poetic setting should remain clear. Isaiah's world judgment belongs to an announced burden with named evil and arrogance, not a license to diagnose every present calamity. Teach the actual ownership, justice, sufficiency or dependence that the passage states without inventing private blame, border claims or an exhaustive physical cosmology.
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The licensed Hebrew range includes world, inhabited earth and context-dependent reach. The actual sentence establishes whether inhabitants or a particular announced setting receive emphasis. Source gloss wording about habitation does not supply an independent scientific mechanism, exact modern border or universal scope decision for every occurrence.
First Corinthians 10:26 explicitly quotes Psalm 24's earth-and-fullness wording within instructions that seek another person's good and attend to conscience. That quotation provides a direct connection without proving the Hebrew world noun and every Greek earth term are interchangeable. Retain Paul's actual market and meal context, including the following conscience qualification, rather than turning ownership into a complete contemporary land or purchasing policy.