κύριος, -ov, 6, (prop. an 2dj. κύριος, -a, - 1, also of two term.; prop. i. q. ὁ ἔχων κῦρος, having power or author ity), [fr. Pind. down], he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has the power of deciding; master, lord; used a. univ. of the possessor and disposer of a thing, the owner, (Sept. for }}18, 5y3): with gen. of the thing, as τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος, Mt. xx. 8; xxi. 40; Mk. xii. 9; Lk. xx. 15; rod θερισμοῦ, Mt. ix. 38; Lk. x. 2; τῆς οἰκίας, the master, Mk. xiii. 35 (Judg. xix. 12); τοῦ πώλου, Lk. xix. 33; τοῦ σαββάτου, possessed of the power to determine what is suitable to the sabbath, and of releasing himself and others from its obligations, Mt. xii. 8; Mk. ii. 28; Lk. vi. 5. with gen. of a pers., one who has control of the person, the master [A. V. lord]; in the household: δούλου, παιδίσκης, οἰκονόμου, Mt. x. 24; Lk. xii. 46 sq.; xiv. 21; xvi. 3, 5; Acts xvi. 16, 19, etc.; absol., opp. to οἱ δοῦλοι, Eph. vi. 5,9; Col. iv. 1, ete.; in the state, the sovereign, prince, chief: the Roman emperor [(on this use of κύριος see at length Woolsey in Bib. Sacr. for July 1861, pp. 595-608)], Acts xxv. 26; once angels are called κύριοι, as those to whom, in the administration of the universe, departments are intrusted by God (see ἄγγελος, 2): 1 Co. viii. 5. b. κύριος is a title of honor, expressive of respect and reverence, with which servants salute their master, Mt. xiii. 27; xxv. 20, 22; Lk. xiii. 8; xiv. 22, ete.; the disciples salute Jesus their teacher and master, Mt. viii. 25; xvi. ΩΣ» ΠΕΣ 54: xa 25/40) ΧΙ 1: ΧΧῚ 33, 98, ἐἴχι. ΧΙ 12» xiii. 6, 9, 13; xxi. 15-17, 20 sq., ete., cf. xx. 18; Lk. xxiv. 34; his followers salute Jesus as the Messiah, whose authority they acknowledge (by its repetition showing their earnestness [cf. W. § 65, 5 a.]), κύριε, κύριε, Mt. vii. 21; and RG in Lk. xiii. 25; employed, too, by a son in addressing his father, Mt. xxi. 30; by citizens towards magistrates, Mt. xxvii. 63; by any one who wishes to honor a man of distinction, Mt. viii. 2, 6,8; xv. 27; Mk. vii. 28; Lk. v.12; xiii. 25; Jn.iv.11, 15,19; ν. 7; xiL 21; xx.15; Actsix.5; xvi. 30; xxii. 8. c. this title is given a. to Gop, the ruler of the universe (so the Sept. for +378, aN, DWN, mim and πὸ; [the term κύριος is used of the gods from Pind. and Soph. down, but “the address κύριε, used in prayer to God, though freq. in Epict. does not occur (so far as I am aware) in any heathen writing before the apostolic times; sometimes we find κύριε ὁ θεός, and once (2, 7, 12) he writes κύριε ἐλέησον" (Bp. Lghtft. on Philip. p. 314 note 8) }),—both with the art., 6 κύριος : Mt. i. 29 [Β 67; v. 33; Mk.v.19; Lk.i. 6,9, 28,46; Acts vil. 33; viii. 24; xi. 21; 2 Tim. i. 16, 18, [but see ἔλεος, 3]; Heb. viii. 2; Jas.iv.15; v.15; Jude5[RG], ete.; and without the art. (cf. W. 124 (118); B. 88 (77) sq.): Mt. xxi. 9: xxvii. 10; Mk. xiii. 20; Lk. i. 17, 38,58, 66; ii. 9, 23, 26, 39; Acts vii.49; Heb. vii. 21; xii. 6; 1 Pet. i. 25; 2 Pet. ii. 9; Jude [5 T Trtxt. WH txt.], 9; κύριος τοῦ οὐρανοῦ x. τῆς γῆς, Mt. xi. 25; Lk. x. 21; Acts xvii. 24; κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων, 1 Tim. vi. 15; κύριος ὁ θεός, see θεός, 3 p- 288" [and below]; κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ, Rev. iv. 8; κύριος σαβαώθ, Ro. ix. 29; ἄγγελος and ὁ ἄγγελος κυρίου, Mt. i. 20; ii. 13,19; xxviii. 2; Lk.i.11; ii. 9; Acts v. 19; viii. 26; xii. 7; πνεῦμα κυρίου, Lk. iv. 18; Acts viii. 39; with prepositions: ὑπὸ (RG add the art.) κυρίου, Mt. i. 22; ii. 15; mapa κυρίου, Mt. xxi. 42 and Mk. xii. 11, fr. Ps. exvii. (exviii.) 23 ; παρὰ κυρίῳ, 2 Pet. iii. 8. B. to the Messran; and that aa. to the Messiah regarded univ.: Lk. i. 43; ii. 11; Mt. xxi. 8; xxii. 45; Mk. xi. 8; xii. 86; Lk. xix.34; xx.44. BB. to Jesus as the Messiah, since by his death he acquired a special ownership in mankind, and after his resurreetion was exalted to a partnership in the divine administration (this force of the word when applied to Jesus appears esp. in Acts x. 36; Ro. xiv. 8; 1 Co. vii. 22; viii. 6; Phil. ii. 9-11): Eph. iv. 5; with the art. ὁ κύρ., Mk. xvi. 19 sq.; Acts ix.1; Ro. xiv. 8; 1 Co. iv. 5; vi. 18 sq.; Vii. 10, 12, 84 sq.; ix. 5,14; x. 22; xi. 26; [xvi. 226 1, TTr WII]; Phil. iv.5; [2 Tim. iv. 22 TTrWH]; Heb. ii. 3 (cf. 7 sqq.); Jas.v.7, ete. after his resurrection Jesus is addressed by the title 6 κύριός μου καὶ ὁ θεός μου, Jn. xx. 28. ἀπὸ τοῦ kup., 1 Co. xi. 23; 2 Co. v. 6; πρὸς τὸν x. 2 Co. v. 8; ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς, Acts i. 21; iv. 33; xvi. 31; xx. 35; 1 Co. xi. 23; [xvi.23 T:TrWH]; 2(Co.i. 14; [2 Tim. iv. 22 Lchm.]; Rev. xxii. 20; ὁ κύρ. "Inc. Χριστός, 1 Co. xvi. 22[R; 23 RGL]; 2 Co. xiii. 13 (14) (WH br. Xp.]; Eph. i. 2; 2 Tim. iv. 22 [RG], ete.; ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν, 1 Tim. i. 14; 2 Tim. i. 8; Heb. vii. 14; 2 Pet. iii. 15; Rev. xi. 15, ete.; with Ἰησοῦς added, [LT Tr WH in 1 Th. iii. 11 and 13]; Heb. xiii. 20; Rev. xxii. 21 [LT Tr (yet without ἡμ.}}; so with Χριστός, Ro. xvi. 18 [GLT Tr WI]; and Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, 1 Th.i. 3 [ef. B. 155 (136)]; iii. 11 [RG], 18 [Ree.]; v. 28; 2 Th. ii. 1, 14, 16; iii. 6 [(ἡμῶν)]; 1 Co. i. 2; 2 Co.i. 3; Gal. vi. 18 [WH br. ἡμῶν]; Eph. i. 3; vi. 24; Ro. xvi. 24 [RG]; 1 Tim. vi. 3,14; Philem. 25 [Τ᾿ WHom. ἡμῶν] ; Phil. iv. 23 [GLT Tr WHom. nz], ete.; Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν, Ro.i.4; and Xp. Ἴησ. ὁ kup. (ἡμῶν), Col. ii. 6; Eph. iii. 11; 1 Tim.i. 2; 2 Tim.i. 2; ὁ κύρ. καὶ ὁ σωτήρ, 2 Pet. iii. 2 [ef. B. 155 (136)]; with Ἰησοῦς Χριστός added, 2 Pet. iii. 18; without the art., simply κύριος : 1 Co. vii. 22, 25; x. 21; xvi. 10; 2 Co. iii. 17; xii. 1; 2 Tim. ii. 24; Jas. v. 11; 2 Pet. ili. 10; κύριος κυρίων i, e. Supreme Lord (cf. W. § 36, 2; [B. § 123, 12]): Rev. xix. 16 (ef. in a. above; of God, Deut. x.17); with prepositions: ἀπὸ κυρίου, Col. iii. 24; κατὰ κύριον, 2 Co. xi. 17; πρὸς κύριον, 2 Co. iii. 16 ; σὺν κυρ. 1 Th. iv. 17; ὑπὸ κυρ. 2 Th. ii. 13; on the phrase ἐν κυρίῳ, freq. in Paul, and except in his writings found only in Rey. xiv. 13, see ἐν, I. 6 b. p. 211°. The appellation ὁ κύριος, applied to Christ, passed over in Luke and John even into historic narrative, where the words and works of Jesus prior to his resurrection are related : Lk. vii. 18; x.1; χὶ. 89; xii.42; xiii.15; xvii. 5 Sq: 3 xxii. 31 [RGLTrbr.]; Jn. iv. 1 [here T Trmrg. Ἰηgous]; vi. 23; xi.2. There is nothing strange in the appearance of the term in the narrative of occurrences after his resurrection: Lk. xxiv. 34; Jn. xx. 2, 18, 20, 50" ἈΧΙ 7. 12. ἃ. There are some who hold that Paul (except in his quotations from the O. T. viz. Ro. iv. 8; ix. 28 sq.; xi. 34; 1 Co. i. 31; ii. 16; iii. 20; x. 26; 2 Co. vi. 17 sq.; x. 17; 2 Tim. ii. 19) uses the title κύριος everywhere not of God, but of Christ. But, to omit instances where the interpretation is doubtful, as 1 Co. vii. 25; 2 Co. viii. 21; 1 Th. iv. 6; 2 Th. iii. 16 (ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης, cf. ὁ θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης, 1 Th. v. 23; but most of the blessings of Christianity are derived alike from God and from Christ), it is better at least in the words ἑκάστῳ ws ὁ κύριος ἔδωκεν, 1 Co. iii. 5, to understand God as referred to on account of what follows, esp. on account of the words κατὰ τὴν χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν δοθεῖσάν μοι ἴῃ vs. 10. On the other hand, κρινόμενοι ὑπὸ τοῦ Kup: in 1 Co. xi. 32 must certainly, I think, be taken of Christ, on account of x. 22, οἵ. 21. Cf. Gabler, Klei nere theol. Schriften, Bd. i. p. 186 sqq.; Winer, De sensu vocum κύριος et ὁ κύριος in actis et epistolis apostolorum. Erlang. 1828; Wesselus Scheffer, diss. theol. exhibens disquisitionem de vocis κύριος absolute positae in N. Τὶ usu. Lugd. 1846 (a monograph I have not seen) ; [Stuart in the Bib. Repos. for Oct. 1831 pp. 733-776; cf. Weiss, Bibl. Theol. ἃ. N. T. § 76; Cremer, Bibl.-theol. Lex. s. v.; Abbot in the Journ. Soe. Bib. Lit. and Exeg. for June and Dee. 1881 p. 126 sqq., June and Dee. 1883 p. 101 sq: On the use of a capital initial, see WH. Intr. § 4141. The word does not occur in the [Ep. to Tit. (crit. edd.), the] 1 Ep. of John, [nor in the Second or the Third; for in 2 Jn. 3 κυρίου is dropped by the critical editors. Syn. see δεσπότης, fin. ].

κύριος kyrios 717x

a lord, master, Mt. 12:8; an owner, possessor, Mt. 20:8; a potentate, sovereign, Acts 25:26; a power, deity, 1 Cor. 8:5; the Lord, Jehovah, Mt. 1:22; the Lord Jesus Christ, Mt. 24:42; Mk. 16:19; Lk. 10:1; Jn. 4:1; 1 Cor. 4:5; freq.; κύριε, a term of respect of various force, Sir, Lord, Mt. 13:27; Acts 9:6, et al. freq.

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.

A MAN, according to the later Greek grammarians, was δεσπότης in respect of his slaves (Plato, Legg. vi. 756 e), therefore οἰκοδεσπότης, but κύριος in regard of his wife and children ; who in speaking either to him or of him, would give him this title of honour; “as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord” (κύριον αὐτὸν καλοῦσα, I Pet. ili. 6: ef. Plutarch, De Virt. Mul. 5. vv. Μίκκα καὶ Meyoro). There is a certain truth in this distinction. Undoubtedly there lies in κύριος the sense of an authority owning limitations—moral limitations it may be; it is implied too that the wielder of this authority will not exclude, in wielding it, a consideration of their good over whom it is exercised; while the δεσπότης exercises a more unrestricted power and absolute domination, confessing no such limitations or restraints. He who addresses another as δέσποτα, puts an emphasis of submission into his speech, which κύριε would not have possessed ; therefore it was that the Greeks, not yet grown slavish, refused this title of δεσπότης to any but the gods (Euripides, Hippol. 88; ἄναξ, θεοὺς yap δεσπότας καλεῖν χρεών) ; while our own use of ‘ despot,’ “ despotic,’ ‘ despotism,’ as set over against that of ‘lord,’ ‘lordship,’ and the like, attests δ xxvii. SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 97 that these words are coloured for us, as they were for those from whom we have derived them. Still, there were influences at work tending to break down this distinction. Slavery, or the appropriating, without payment, of other men’s toil, however legalized, is so abhorrent to men’s innate sense of right, that they seek to mitigate, in word at least, if not in fact, its atrocity ; and thus, as no southern Planter in America willingly spoke of his ‘slaves,’ but preferred some other term, so in antiquity, wherever any gentler or more huinane view of slavery obtained, the antithesis of δεσπότης and δοῦλος would continually give place to that of κύριος and δοῦλος. The harsher antithesis might still survive, but the milder would prevail side by side with it. We need not look further than to the writings of St. Paul, to see how little, in popular speech, the distinction of the grammarians was observed. Masters are now κύριοι (Ephes. vi. 9; Col. iv. 1), and now δεσπόται (1 Tim. vi. 1, 2; Tit. ii. 9; cf. 1 Pet. ii. 18), with him; and compare Philo, Quod Omn. Prob. Inb. 6. But, while all experience shows how little sinful man can be trusted with unrestricted power over his fellow, how certainly he will abuse it—a moral fact attested in our use of ‘despot’ as equivalent with ‘tyrant,’ as well as in the history of ‘tyrant’ itself—it can only be a blessedness for man to regard God as the absolute Lord, Ruler, and Disposer of his life; since with Him power is never disconnected frem wisdom and from love: and, as we saw that the Greeks, not without a certain sense of this, were well pleased to style the gods δεσπόται, however they might refuse this title to any other; so, within the limits of Revelation, δεσπότης, no less than κύριος, is applied to the true God. Thus in the Septuagint, at Josh. v. 14; Prov. xxix. 25; Jer. iv. 10; in the Apocrypha, at 2 Mace. v. 17, and elsewhere; while in the N. T. on these occasions: Luke ii. 29 ; Acts iv. 24; Rev. vi. 10; 2 Pet. ii. H 98 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. ὃ xxix. 1; Jude 4. In the last two it is to Christ, but to Christ as God, that the title is ascribed. Erasmus, indeed, out of that latent Arianism, of which, perhaps, he was scarcely conscious to himself, denies that, at Jude 4, δεσπότης is to be referred to Christ ; attributing only κύριος to Him, and δεσπότης to the Father. The fact that in the Greek text, as he read it, Θεόν followed and was joined to δεσπότην, no doubt really lay at the root of his reluctance to ascribe the title of δεσπότης to Christ. It was for him not a philological, but a theological difficulty, however he may have sought to persuade himself otherwise. This δεσπότης did no doubt express on the lips of the faithful who used it, their sense of God’s absolute disposal of his creatures, of his autocratic power, who “ doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth” (Dan. iv. 35), more strongly than κύριος would have done. So much is plain from some words of Philo (Quis Rer. Div. Her. 6), who finds evidence of Abraham’s εὐλάβεια, of his tempering, on one signal occasion (Gen. xv. 2), boldness with reverence and godly fear, in the fact that, addressing God, he is not content with the simple κύριε, but links with it the less usual δέσποτα; for δεσπότης, as Philo proceeds to say, is not κύριος only, but φοβερὸ ς κύριος, and implies, on his part who uses it, a more entire prostration of self before the might and majesty of God than κύριος would have done.

κύριος BGU III. ο49᾽ (c. A.D. 300) κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ “Hpa, a sister (and probably wife) —P Oxy IV. 7441 (B.c. 1) (= Selections, p. 32) Ἱλαρίωνα (/.—tov)”"Adure τῆι ἀδελφῆι πλεῖστα Χαίρειν, and even a son—zd. I. 123} (iii/iv A.D.) κυρίῳ pov vid Διονυσοθέωνι. (3) It is, however, with the religious use of κύριος that we are specially concerned, and in keeping with the conception of ‘‘lordship,’’ which was so characteristic of Oriental religions, we may begin by noticing its common use in connexion with the cult of the Egyptian God Sarapis. Letters frequently begin with some such formula as—rpd μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑιαίνειν (1. by—) καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά cov ποιῶ παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Σιαράπιδι, ‘before all else I pray for your health, and I supplicate the lord Sarapis on your behalf”’ (P Fay 127°—ii/iii a.p.), and we may add, owing to the striking resemblance of phraseology to 1 Cor 1024 such invitations to a ceremonial feast in the Serapeum as P Oxy I. ττοῦ (ii/A.D.) ἐρωτᾷ σε Χαιρήμων δειπνῆσαι cis κλείνην τοῦ κυρίου Σαράπιδος ἐν τῷ Σαραπείῳ αὔριον, ἥτις ἐστὶν τε, ἀπὸ ὥρας θ, ““ Chaeremon requests your company at dinner at the table of the lord Sarapis in the Serapaeum to-morrow, the 15th, at 9g o'’clock”’ (Edd.), cf. 7. III. 523 (ii/a.p.) (= Selections, p. 97). (4) From this it is easy to see how the title came to be applied to sovereigns or rulers in the East. Thus, to confine ourselves to the period immediately preceding the Christian era, Deissmann (LAZ p. 356) cites the description of Ptolemy XIII. as τοῦ κυρίου βασιλ[έ]ος θεοῦ, ‘the lord king god,” from an inscr. of 12th May B.c. 62 (OGZS 1868), and another inscr. from Alexandria of B.c. 52 where Ptolemy XIV. and Cleopatra are called ot κύριοι θεοὶ μέγιστοι, ‘the lords, the most great gods” (cf. Berd. Sitzungsberichte, 1902, p- 1096). Similarly, as the same writer points out (LAZ, P- 357), κύριος is applied to Herod the Great (B.c. 37-34) in OG/S 4151 BajowWet Ηρώδει κυρίῳ, and to Herod Agrippa I. (A.D. 37-44) in 7d. 418! ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας κυρίου βασιλέως ᾿Αγρίππα, a’. There is no evidence that the title was applied to the Roman Emperors in the West before the time of Domitian. Indeed it was specially disclaimed by Augustus and Tiberius as contrary to the Roman conception of the ‘‘ Principate” (see Ovid Fast. ii. 142, Suet. dug. 53, Tac. Ann. ii. 87, Suet. 77). 27, cited by Hatch /BZ xxvii. 2, p. 139). In the East, on the other hand, it was bestowed on Claudius, and becomes very common in the time of Nero. For Claudius we may cite the official report of certain events which had taken place—f (ἔτους) Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Katσαρος τοῦ κυρίου (P Oxy I. 37 ®—a.p. 49 (= Selections, Ρ- 49)), and Ostr 10388 (a.D. 54) (δ (ἔτους) (Τιβερίου) KAavSfov. . . τοῦ κυρίου. Numerous other ostraca in Wilcken’s collection show the designation as applied to Nero e.g. 164 (A.D. 60) (ἔτους) £ Νέρωνος τοῦ κυρίου Χοίαχ ~ 17%, al. : cf. also for the absence of the art., as in Lk 211, Col 317, Meyer Ost¢v 39% (A.D. 62) ἔτος ἢ Népovos κυρίου Ilatve 7. From the papyri it is sufficient to quote P Oxy II. 246% (A.D. 66) in which a registration of cattle is certified as having taken place—(%rous) ιβ Νέρωνος τοῦ κυρου (1 κυρίου), and from the inscrr. Syé/ 37651 (Boeotia—a.D. 67), where Nero is hailed as 6 τοῦ παντὸς κόσμου κύριος Νέρων : cf. 5. To later dates belong such passages as Meyer Ostr 17% (A.D. 74-5) Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου, Magn 192° (time of

κύριος (kurios) — lord: God. κύριος [ῡ], α, ον, also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Thess. κῦρρος [Refs 8th c.BC+]:

I. of persons, having power or authority over, with genitive, Ζεὺς ὁ πάντων κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὶν ἄν σε κ. στήσω τέκνων put thee in possession of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+], of the god to whom a temple is dedicated, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τῶν αὑτοὺ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θανάτου κ. τινός with power of life and death over, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.2. κύριός εἰμι with infinitive, I have authority to do, am entitled to do, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὗτος κ. ὁρκωμοτεῖν (probably to be read instead of -ῶν) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ώτεροι δοῦναι better able to give, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also κ. τοῦ μὴ μεθυσθῆναι having power not to.., [Refs]: with accusative et infinitive, κ. εἶναι ἢ τοίαν εἶναι [πόλιν] ἢ τοίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.3. followed by a dependent clause, κ. γενέσθαι, ὅντινα δεῖ καταστήσασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]

I.4. with participle, πριαμένους τι ἢ πωλοῦντας κυρίους εἶναι [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.5. absolutely, having authority, supreme, τί τῶνδε κυριωτέρους μένει; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ πατὴρ μέχρι τούτου κ. [ἐστι] [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ κ. the sovereign power in a state, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ κ. the supreme authorities, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Athens, κ. ἐκκλησία a sovereign or principal assembly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. of things, ὁ τῆς ὥρας τῆς καταρχῆς κ. [ἀστήρ] [Refs 2nd c.BC+]: but usually absolutely, authoritative, decisive, δίκαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῦθος -ώτερος of more authority, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ωτάτη τῶν ἐπιστημῶν [ἡ πολιτική] [Refs 4th c.BC+]; -ωτέρα ἡ καθόλου [ἀπόδειξις] [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of sovereign remedies, - ωτάτη τῶν καθάρσεων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; important, principal, κ. δόξαι, of certain doctrines of Epicurus, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ -ώτατα the principal organs, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] (but, the most important matters, [Refs 4th c.BC+] principal accent, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

II.2. opposed to ἄκυρος, valid, νόμος, δόγματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ποιεῖν [τὴν γνῶσιν], opposed to ἄκυρον π., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔστω τὰ κριθέντα κ. Legal cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.3. of times, etc., ordained, appointed, ἡ κυρίη ἡμέρη [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; κ. μήν, of a woman with child, i.e. the ninth month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅταν τὸ κ. μόλῃ φάος (probably) the appointed time, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ κ. [ἡμέρα] [Refs 4th c.BC+] but αἱ κ. [ἡμεραι], ={κριτικαί}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.4. legitimate, lawful, ὕπνος πόνος τε, κ. ξυνωμόται [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες having lawful power, [Refs]

II.5. ἡ κ. ἀρετή goodness proper, real goodness, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Rhet. and Grammars, κ. ὄνομα the real or actual, hence current, ordinary, name of a thing, opposed to μεταφορά, γλῶττα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; σπάνει κυρίου ὀνόματος for lack of a current term, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; -ώτατα ὀνόματα most ordinary terms, [Refs]proper, personal name, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὄνομα alone in this sense, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κ. [λέξεις] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸν κ. τρόπον, opposed to καταχρωμένη, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III. adverb κυρίως, see entry __B substantive κύριος, ὁ, lord, master, τοῖσι κ. δωμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ κ. alone, head of a family, master of a house (compare [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, guardian of a woman, [Refs 4th c.BC+], etc.: generally, guardian, trustee, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.b later κύριε, as a form of respectful address, sir, [NT+2nd c.AD+] __B.2 feminine κυρία, ἡ, mistress, lady of the house, [LXX+4th c.BC+]: in vocative, madam, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; applied to women from fourteen years upwards, [Refs 1st c.AD+]. (In later Gr. frequently written κύρα, [Refs 6th c.AD+] __B.2.b epithet of Ἶσις, [Refs 1st c.BC+] __B.3 of gods, especially in the East, Σεκνεβτῦνις ὁ κ. θεός [Refs 1st c.BC+]; Κρόνος κ. [Refs 1st c.AD+]; Ζεὺς κ. [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; κ. Σάραπις [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of deified rulers, τοῦ κ. βασιλέος θεοῦ [Refs 1st c.BC+]; οἱ κ. θεοὶ μέγιστοι, of Ptolemy XIV and [Refs 1st c.BC+]; of Roman Emperors, [Refs] __B.4 ὁ Κύριος, = Hebrew [LXX]; of Christ, [NT]

κύριος (kurios) — lord: master. κύριος [ῡ], α, ον, also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Thess. κῦρρος [Refs 8th c.BC+]:

I. of persons, having power or authority over, with genitive, Ζεὺς ὁ πάντων κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὶν ἄν σε κ. στήσω τέκνων put thee in possession of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+], of the god to whom a temple is dedicated, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τῶν αὑτοὺ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θανάτου κ. τινός with power of life and death over, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.2. κύριός εἰμι with infinitive, I have authority to do, am entitled to do, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὗτος κ. ὁρκωμοτεῖν (probably to be read instead of -ῶν) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ώτεροι δοῦναι better able to give, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also κ. τοῦ μὴ μεθυσθῆναι having power not to.., [Refs]: with accusative et infinitive, κ. εἶναι ἢ τοίαν εἶναι [πόλιν] ἢ τοίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.3. followed by a dependent clause, κ. γενέσθαι, ὅντινα δεῖ καταστήσασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]

I.4. with participle, πριαμένους τι ἢ πωλοῦντας κυρίους εἶναι [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.5. absolutely, having authority, supreme, τί τῶνδε κυριωτέρους μένει; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ πατὴρ μέχρι τούτου κ. [ἐστι] [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ κ. the sovereign power in a state, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ κ. the supreme authorities, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Athens, κ. ἐκκλησία a sovereign or principal assembly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. of things, ὁ τῆς ὥρας τῆς καταρχῆς κ. [ἀστήρ] [Refs 2nd c.BC+]: but usually absolutely, authoritative, decisive, δίκαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῦθος -ώτερος of more authority, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ωτάτη τῶν ἐπιστημῶν [ἡ πολιτική] [Refs 4th c.BC+]; -ωτέρα ἡ καθόλου [ἀπόδειξις] [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of sovereign remedies, - ωτάτη τῶν καθάρσεων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; important, principal, κ. δόξαι, of certain doctrines of Epicurus, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ -ώτατα the principal organs, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] (but, the most important matters, [Refs 4th c.BC+] principal accent, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

II.2. opposed to ἄκυρος, valid, νόμος, δόγματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ποιεῖν [τὴν γνῶσιν], opposed to ἄκυρον π., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔστω τὰ κριθέντα κ. Legal cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.3. of times, etc., ordained, appointed, ἡ κυρίη ἡμέρη [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; κ. μήν, of a woman with child, i.e. the ninth month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅταν τὸ κ. μόλῃ φάος (probably) the appointed time, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ κ. [ἡμέρα] [Refs 4th c.BC+] but αἱ κ. [ἡμεραι], ={κριτικαί}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.4. legitimate, lawful, ὕπνος πόνος τε, κ. ξυνωμόται [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες having lawful power, [Refs]

II.5. ἡ κ. ἀρετή goodness proper, real goodness, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Rhet. and Grammars, κ. ὄνομα the real or actual, hence current, ordinary, name of a thing, opposed to μεταφορά, γλῶττα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; σπάνει κυρίου ὀνόματος for lack of a current term, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; -ώτατα ὀνόματα most ordinary terms, [Refs]proper, personal name, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὄνομα alone in this sense, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κ. [λέξεις] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸν κ. τρόπον, opposed to καταχρωμένη, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III. adverb κυρίως, see entry __B substantive κύριος, ὁ, lord, master, τοῖσι κ. δωμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ κ. alone, head of a family, master of a house (compare [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, guardian of a woman, [Refs 4th c.BC+], etc.: generally, guardian, trustee, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.b later κύριε, as a form of respectful address, sir, [NT+2nd c.AD+] __B.2 feminine κυρία, ἡ, mistress, lady of the house, [LXX+4th c.BC+]: in vocative, madam, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; applied to women from fourteen years upwards, [Refs 1st c.AD+]. (In later Gr. frequently written κύρα, [Refs 6th c.AD+] __B.2.b epithet of Ἶσις, [Refs 1st c.BC+] __B.3 of gods, especially in the East, Σεκνεβτῦνις ὁ κ. θεός [Refs 1st c.BC+]; Κρόνος κ. [Refs 1st c.AD+]; Ζεὺς κ. [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; κ. Σάραπις [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of deified rulers, τοῦ κ. βασιλέος θεοῦ [Refs 1st c.BC+]; οἱ κ. θεοὶ μέγιστοι, of Ptolemy XIV and [Refs 1st c.BC+]; of Roman Emperors, [Refs] __B.4 ὁ Κύριος, = Hebrew [LXX]; of Christ, [NT]