-wicked/wickedness:.In the original, the Greek for 'wicked' and for 'evil' is 'painful persuasions of hard toil and effort'. The word in those references, connotes the effects of being unGodly, which unGodliness brings hard toil and effort in the things of life and lack of innerstanding in spiritual matters:.Daniel 12:8-10. But, what is unGodliness?

The wicked are those of low consciousness:.Job 24:13 "They are of those that rebel against the light not knowing the ways thereof and not abiding in the paths thereof." Psalms 82:5 "They know not, neither do they want to know. They walk on in darkness..." Proverbs 4:19 "The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble." Isaiah 59:8 "The way of peace they know not and there is no judgment in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whosoever goes therein shall not know peace." Jeremiah 5:4 "Therefore I said, Surely these are poor and foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.".Acts 18:25; Jeremiah 9:3; Amos 3:10; Micah 4:12; Luke 23:34.

In other places, the word 'wicked' presents differing meanings:.Matthew 21:33-44; Acts 2:23; 2Thessalonians 2:8 and 2Peter 2:7. The devil is called the "wicked one".

The good are out to do good. The wicked are out to do bad. Which side you feed depends on you:.Psalms 37:12,14,21,32; Proverbs 16:4. 

Our job is to pray for the wicked.(but what about John 17:8,9?).so they can come out of the present evil world, the construct because of ordinary consciousness thinking:.Galatians 1:4; Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:27-31.

In the OT the word 'wicked' means 'unGodly' or those not trusting in the Lord.(Psalms 32:10).and has other meanings in some places. 

Basically the wicked are those steeped in their own selfish ways not hesitating to do things apart from the 'golden rule' of life.

-word(s): words in original in the Old Testament are the same for any derivative of the word, for example son, grandson and the same for mother and grandmother, father, grandfather, brother.(Genesis 14:14 {brother} with 11:31 showing it was a nephew; also 1Corinthians 8:13), etc., so, one has to discern as best he or she can if the passage of scripture is speaking of descent or immediate.relative.

Words such as thousands and forever are used figuratively in the Bible.

-world:.In the New Testament part of the Bible there are 3 words translated from the Greek into the one English word 'world'.
   They are 'aion', oikoumene', 'kosmos'. 
   'aion' means 'age'. This is the original Greek word used allegorically when the Bible refers to coming out of the world.

It means the age in which we are contemporary; the time of each generation of human beings living in their ego realm on the Earth. It refers to the community, the people and their being out of touch with spiritual thinking, instead thinking mostly from the ego level like this. 

The 'world' are the unbelievers:.John 17:8,9 "For I have given unto them.(verses 6,7).the words which you gave me and they have received them and have known surely that I came out from you and they have believed that you did send me. I pray for them. I pray not for the world but for them which you have given me, for they are yours." John 17:20 "Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which believe on me through their word.".Although all are welcome now, another time is for those remaining at the ego level.

Well then, what does it mean?
   'oikoumene' means the same as 'tebel' does, in the Old Testament. 
   'kosmos' means 'the orderly arrangement of things in habitable society', albeit, with all its rights and wrongs, the devil pushing us a little further down with every wrong turn we decide to take:.James 4:7; Revelation 12:9.
   In the Old Testament there are at least four words: 'tebel', meaning the habitable part of the world, 'olam' meaning 'perpetual, age lasting', 'cheled' meaning 'age', 'erets' meaning 'land, Earth, ground'.
   These comprise many of the occurrences of the word world. 

God controls all. We may think He doesn't, but He does. He put the desires we have into us making us subject to their influence, even the desires He had us born with, such as in the case of Edom and his brother Jacob. It's all for our learning, that is, if we choose to learn.

Romans 9:20 "Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me as I am?"