oikoumene denotes the world viewed as the broad human sphere reached by decrees, events, proclamation, judgment, and worship.

The term consistently marks the world in its comprehensive extent: a sphere affected by imperial registration, famine, proclamation, upheaval, worship, deception, judgment, and events yet to come. The supplied verses also use it with future-oriented settings, including the coming world and a trial coming upon the whole world, without requiring a separate lexical sense.

1. The world as a comprehensive human sphere · dominant

   The noun identifies the wide sphere over which an action, condition, or claim extends. In Luke 2:1 the APB renders a decree that "all the world should be registered"; in Matthew 24:14, proclamation reaches "all the world" and "all the nations"; and in Acts 11:28 a famine is said to be coming upon "the whole world." The same broad scope appears in Acts 17:31, where judgment concerns the world, and Revelation 3:10, where a coming temptation is upon "the whole world."

   Luke 2:1Acts 11:28Matthew 24:14Acts 17:31Revelation 3:10Hebrews 2:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the term with "world," often qualified as "all the world" or "the whole world." It also uses "earth" in Romans 10:18, so that variation should not be treated as a distinct meaning of the term.