The word "World" appears in the Bible 280 times and 241 times in just the New Testament. Calvinist believe that the word "world" means "the elect world" or "the world of the elect". The term "elect world" or "world of the elect" does not appear in the Bible.
I have done a word study on the word "World" in both the English, Greek and Hebrew languages, using Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and using different scriptures that relate to the word "world".
"God so loved the "WORLD" that he gave his only begotten Son" John 3:16.
Word #G2889, means, Orderly arrangement,ie, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide and narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively (morally):- adorning world.
According to Funk &Wagnall Dictionary, it means 1, The earth. 2. A part of the earth. 3. The universe. 4. A division of existing or created things belonging to the earth; the animal world. 5, The inhabitants of the earth.
"In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the "WORLD" began" Titus 1:2.
Word #G166, means, Perpetual (also used of past time or past and future as well):-eternal, for ever, lasting, world (began).
"All of you inhabitants of the "WORLD" and dwellers of the earth" Isaiah 18:3
Word #H398, means, The earth (as moist and therefore inhabited) by extension the globe: by implication its inhabitants, specifically a land as Babylonia, Palestine: - Habitable part of the world.
There are many other meanings to the word "WORLD" but they all come back to the inhabitants or the people of the world. It is humanity that inhabits the world. Nowhere in the Bible does it mean or say that the world consist of "some certain persons". Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2. Word #G2889. Therefore salvation has been promised to everyone in the whole world, Hebrews 2:9.
I have done a word study on the word "World" in both the English, Greek and Hebrew languages, using Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and using different scriptures that relate to the word "world".
"God so loved the "WORLD" that he gave his only begotten Son" John 3:16.
Word #G2889, means, Orderly arrangement,ie, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide and narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively (morally):- adorning world.
According to Funk &Wagnall Dictionary, it means 1, The earth. 2. A part of the earth. 3. The universe. 4. A division of existing or created things belonging to the earth; the animal world. 5, The inhabitants of the earth.
"In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the "WORLD" began" Titus 1:2.
Word #G166, means, Perpetual (also used of past time or past and future as well):-eternal, for ever, lasting, world (began).
"All of you inhabitants of the "WORLD" and dwellers of the earth" Isaiah 18:3
Word #H398, means, The earth (as moist and therefore inhabited) by extension the globe: by implication its inhabitants, specifically a land as Babylonia, Palestine: - Habitable part of the world.
There are many other meanings to the word "WORLD" but they all come back to the inhabitants or the people of the world. It is humanity that inhabits the world. Nowhere in the Bible does it mean or say that the world consist of "some certain persons". Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2. Word #G2889. Therefore salvation has been promised to everyone in the whole world, Hebrews 2:9.