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κύριος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύριος κυρίου

Structure: κυρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. lord, master, guardian, ruler, owner
  2. sir
  3. Greek translation of יהוה in LXX

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἀπέστελλε τοῖσ κυρίοισ, καὶ ἀπέδωκαν αὐτῇ καὶ αὐτοὶ τὸν μισθὸν προσδόντεσ καὶ ἔριφον. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 2:12)
  • ὅτε δὲ ἦλθε πρόσ με, ἤρξατο κράζειν. καὶ εἶπα αὐτῇ. πόθεν τὸ ἐρίφιον̣ μὴ κλεψιμαῖόν ἐστιν̣ ἀπόδοσ αὐτὸ τοῖσ κυρίοισ. οὐ γὰρ θεμιτόν ἐστι φαγεῖν κλεψιμαῖον. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 2:13)
  • ἡ δὲ εἶπε. δῶρον δέδοταί μοι ἐπὶ τῷ μισθῷ. καὶ οὐκ ἐπίστευον αὐτῇ καὶ ἔλεγον ἀποδιδόναι αὐτὸ τοῖσ κυρίοισ καί ἠρυθρίων πρὸσ αὐτήν. ἡ δὲ ἀποκριθεῖσα εἶπέ μοι. ποῦ εἰσιν αἱ ἐλεημοσύναι σου καὶ αἱ δικαιοσύναι σου̣ ἰδοὺ γνωστὰ πάντα μετὰ σοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 2:14)
  • ΑΚΟΥΣΑΤΕ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον, δαμάλεισ τῆσ Βασανίτιδοσ, αἱ ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῆσ Σαμαρείασ, αἱ καταδυναστεύουσαι πτωχοὺσ καὶ καταπατοῦσαι πένητασ, αἱ λέγουσαι τοῖσ κυρίοισ αὐτῶν. ἐπίδοτε ἡμῖν ὅπωσ πίωμεν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 4:1)
  • μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπελογιζόμην, ὅτι τοῖσ κυρίοισ καὶ συνήθεσι καὶ κοινοῖσ ὀνόμασιν ἀμφότεροι κέχρηνται, ἡ δὲ Ἰσοκράτουσ λέξισ προσλαβοῦσά τι τῆσ τροπικῆσ κατασκευῆσ μέχρι τοῦ μὴ λυπῆσαι προῆλθεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 11 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. lord

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