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Strong's G2962 · Greek

κύριος

kurios · koo'-ree-os

from kuros (supremacy); supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication, Master (as a respectful title)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

κύριος (G2962)

717 κύριος , -α, -ον (also -ος, -ον ), [in LXX (subst.) chiefly for יהוה , also for אָדוֹן , בַּעַל , etc.;] having power ( κῦρος ) or authority ; as subst., ὁ κ. , lord , master ; in general: c. gen. rei, Mt 9:38 20:8 , Mk 12:9 13:35 , Lk 19:33 ; τ. σαββάτου , Mt 12:8 , Mk 2:28 , Lk 6:5 ; c. gen. pers., δούλου , etc., Mt 10:24 , Lk 14:21 , Ac 16:16 , al.; absol., opp. to οἱ δοῦλοι , Eph 6:5 , 9 , al.; of the Emperor (Deiss., LAE , 161), Ac 25:26 ; θεοὶ πολλοὶ καὶ κ. πολλοί , I Co 8:5 ; of a husband, I Pe 3:6 ; in voc., as a title of respect to masters, teachers, magistrates, etc., Mt 13:27 16:22 27:63 , Mk 7:28 , Lk 5:12 , Jo 4:11 , Ac 9:5 , al. As a divine title (freq. in π. ; Deiss., LAE , 353 ff.); in NT, of God: ὁ κ. , Mt 5:33 , Mk 5:19 , Lk 1:6 , Ac 7:33 , He 8:2 , Ja 4:15 , al.; anarth. (Bl., § 46, 6), Mt 21:9 , Mk 13:20 , Lk 1:17 , He 7:21 , I Pe 1:25 , al.; κ. τ. οὐρανοῦ καὶ τ. γῆς , Mt 11:25 ; τ. κυριευόντων , I Ti 6:15 ; κ. ὁ θεός , Mt 4:7 , 10 al.; id. seq. ὁ παντοκράτωρ , Re 4:8 ; κ. σαβαώθ , Ro 9:29 ; ( ὁ ) ἄγγελος κυρίου , Mt 1:20 2:13 , Lk 1:11 , al.; πνεῦμα κυρίου , Lk 4:18 , Ac 8:39 ; of the Christ: Mt 21:3 , Mk 11:3 , Lk 1:43 20:44 , al.; of Jesus after his resurrection (Dalman, Words , 330), Ac 10:36 , Ro 14:8 , I Co 7:22 , Eph 4:5 , al.; ὁ κ. μου , Jo 20:28 ; ὁ κ. Ἰησοῦς , Ac 1:21 , I Co 11:23 , al.; id. seq. Χριστός , Eph 1:2 , al.; ὁ κ. ἡμῶν , I Ti 1:14 , He 7:14 , al.; id. seq. Ἰησοῦς , I Th 3:11 , He 13:20 , al.; Χριστός , Ro 16:18 ; Ἰ Χ. , I Co 1:2 , I Th 1:3 , al.; Ἰ. Χ. ( Χ. Ἰ ) ὁ κ. ( ἡμῶν ), Ro 1:4 , Col 2:6 , Eph 3:11 , al.; ὁ κ. καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ , II Pe 3:2 ; id. seq. Ἰ. Χ. , II Pe 3:18 ; anarth., I Co 7:22 , 25 , Ja 5:4 , al.; κ. κυρίων , Re 19:16 ; c. prep., ἀπὸ ( κατὰ , πρὸς , σὺν , etc.) κ. , Col 3:24 , al. SYN: v.s. δεσπότης .

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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