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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

  • Αὕτη ἡ βίβλοσ γενέσεωσ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆσ, ὅτε ἐγένετο. ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:4)
  • Καὶ ἔλαβε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὃν ἔπλασε, καὶ ἔθετο αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τῆσ τρυφῆσ, ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ φυλάσσειν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:15)
  • καὶ ἐνετείλατο Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῷ Ἀδὰμ λέγων. ἀπὸ παντὸσ ξύλου τοῦ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ βρώσει φαγῇ, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:16)
  • Καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ. οὐ καλὸν εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον μόνον. ποιήσωμεν αὐτῷ βοηθὸν κατ̓ αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:18)
  • Ο δὲ ὄφισ ἦν φρονιμώτατοσ πάντων τῶν θηρίων τῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, ὧν ἐποίησε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ. καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ὄφισ τῇ γυναικί. τί ὅτι εἶπεν ὁ Θεόσ, οὐ μὴ φάγητε ἀπὸ παντὸσ ξύλου τοῦ παραδείσου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. lord

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