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Kyrios or kurios (Greek: κύριος, romanized: kū́rios (ancient), kyrios (modern)) is a Greek word that is usually translated as "lord" or "master". [1] It is used in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament) about 7000 times, [2] in particular translating the name YHWH (the Tetragrammaton), [3] and it appears in the Koine Greek New Testament about 740 times ...
"Jesus is Lord" (Greek: Κύριος Ἰησοῦς, romanized: Kýrios Iēsoûs) is the shortest credal affirmation found in the New Testament, one of several slightly more elaborate variations. [1] It serves as a statement of faith for the majority of Christians who regard Jesus as both fully man and God .
Alternative suggestions (e.g. by De Saussure) connect *dhu̯es-"smoke, spirit", attested in Baltic and Germanic words for "spook" and ultimately cognate with Latin fumus "smoke." The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek te-o [10] (plural te-o-i [11]), written in Linear B syllabic script.
A nomen sacrum consists of two or more letters from the original word spanned by an overline. Biblical scholar and textual critic Bruce M. Metzger lists 15 such words treated as nomina sacra from Greek papyri: the Greek counterparts of God, Lord, Jesus, Christ, Son, Spirit, David, Cross, Mother, Father, Israel, Savior, Man, Jerusalem, and Heaven.
Kyrie XI ("orbis factor")—a fairly ornamented setting of the Kyrie in Gregorian chant—from the Liber Usualis. Kyrie, a transliteration of Greek Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison (/ ˈ k ɪr i. eɪ ɛ ˈ l eɪ. i s ɒ n / KEER-ee-ay el-AY-eess-on; Ancient Greek: Κύριε ...
The Old English word 'hlaford' evolved into 'lord'. According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English word hlāford which originated from hlāfweard meaning "loaf-ward" or "bread-keeper", reflecting the Germanic tribal custom of a chieftain providing food for his followers. [3]
The name of the Greek god Adonis is similar to a Semitic word—adon (which means "lord"). [5] However, there is no trace of a Semitic deity directly connected with Adonis, though there most likely was. [clarification needed] [6] There is also no trace in Semitic languages of any specific mythemes connected with his Greek myth.
The word is almost a hapax legomenon, occurring only in Luke and Matthew's versions of the Lord's Prayer, and nowhere else in any other extant Greek texts. While epiousion is often substituted by the word "daily", all other New Testament translations from the Greek into "daily" otherwise reference hemeran (ἡμέραν, "the day"), which does ...