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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κύριος κυρίω κύριοι
Genitive κυρίου κυρίοιν κυρίων
Dative κυρίῳ κυρίοιν κυρίοις
Accusative κύριον κυρίω κυρίους
Vocative κύριε κυρίω κύριοι

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 εἶπε Κάϊν πρὸσ Κύριον τὸν Θεόν. μείζων ἡ αἰτία μου τοῦ ἀφεθῆναί με. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 4:13)
  • εἶπε δὲ Ἅβραμ πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα Σοδόμων. ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου πρὸσ Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν τὸν ὕψιστον, ὃσ ἔκτισε τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 14:22)
  • καὶ ἀποκριθεὶσ Ἁβραὰμ εἶπε. νῦν ἠρξάμην λαλῆσαι πρὸσ τὸν Κύριόν μου, ἐγὼ δέ εἰμι γῆ καὶ σποδόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:27)
  • καὶ εἶπεν. ἐπειδὴ ἔχω λαλῆσαι πρὸσ τὸν κύριον. ἐὰν δὲ εὑρεθῶσιν ἐκεῖ εἴκοσι̣ καὶ εἶπεν. οὐ μὴ ἀπολέσω, ἐὰν εὕρω ἐκεῖ εἴκοσι. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:31)
  • καὶ ἐταράχθησαν. καὶ ἐκράτησαν οἱ ἄγγελοι τῆσ χειρὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆσ χειρὸσ τῆσ γυναικὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν χειρῶν τῶν δύο θυγατέρων αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ φείσασθαι Κύριον αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:16)

Synonyms

  1. lord

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