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kurios G2962

κύριος (kurios) means “lord: God” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

κύριος Greek · G2962 707 tagged occurrences in 650 verses

Pronunciation guide: koo'-ree-os Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2962G

κύριος · kurios · lord: God

κύριος, -α, -ον (also -ος, -ον), [in LXX (subst.) chiefly for יהוה, also for בַּעַל ,אָדוֹן, etc. ;] having power (κῦρος) or authority; as subst., ὁ κ., lord, master; 1. in general: with genitive of thing(s), Mat.9:38 20:8, Mrk.12:9 13:35, Luk.19:33; τ. σαββάτου, Mat.12:8, Mrk.2:28, Luk.6:5; with genitive of person(s), δούλου, etc., Mat.10:24, Luk.14:21, Act.16:16, al.; absol, opposite to οἱ δοῦλοι, Eph.6:5, 9 al.; of the Emperor (Deiss., LAE, 161), Act.25:26; θεοὶ πολλοὶ καὶ κ. πολλοί, 1Co.8:5; of a husband, 1Pe.3:6; in voc, as a title of respect to masters, teachers, magistrates, etc., Mat.13:27 16:22 27:63, Mrk.7:28, Luk.5:12, Jhn.4:11, Act.9:5, al. 2. As a divine title (frequently in π.; Deiss., LAE, 353 ff.); in NT, (a) of God: ὁ κ., Mat.5:33, Mrk.5:19, Luk.1:6, Act.7:33, Heb.8:2, Jas.4:15, al.; anarth. (Bl., §46, 6), Mat.21:9, Mrk.13:20, Luk.1:17, Heb.7:21, 1Pe.1:25, al.; κ. τ. οὐρανοῦ καὶ τ. γῆς, Mat.11:25; τ. κυριευόντων, 1Ti.6:15; κ. ὁ θεός, Mat.4:7, 10 al.; id. before παντοκράτωρ, Rev.4:8; κ. σαβαώθ, Rom.9:29; (ὁ) ἄγγελος κυρίου, Mat.1:20 2:13, Luk.1:11, al.; πνεῦμα κυρίου, Luk.4:18, Act.8:39; (b) of the Christ: Mat.21:3, Mrk.11:3, Luk.1:43 20:44, al.; of Jesus after his resurrection (Dalman, Words, 330), Act.10:36, Rom.14:8, 1Co.7:22, Eph.4:5, al.; ὁ κ. μου, Jhn.20:28; ὁ κ. Ἰησοῦς, Act.1:21, 1Co.11:23, al.; id. before Χριστός, Eph.1:2, al.; ὁ κ. ἡμῶν, 1Ti.1:14, Heb.7:14, al.; id. before Ἰησοῦς, 1Th.3:11, Heb.13:20, al.; Χριστός, Rom.16:18; Ἰ Χ., 1Co.1:2, 1Th.1:3, al.; Ἰ. Χ. (Χ. Ἰ) ὁ κ. (ἡμῶν), Rom.1:4, Col.2:6, Eph.3:11, al.; ὁ κ. καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ, 2Pe.3:2; id. before Ἰ. Χ., ib. 18; anarth., 1Co.7:22, 25 Jas.5:4, al.; κ. κυρίων, Rev.19:16; with prep., ἀπὸ (κατὰ, πρὸς, σὺν, etc.) κ., Col.3:24, al. SYN: see: δεσπότης. (AS)

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TBESG · G2962H

κύριος · kurios · lord: master

κύριος, -α, -ον (also -ος, -ον), [in LXX (subst.) chiefly for יהוה, also for בַּעַל ,אָדוֹן, etc. ;] having power (κῦρος) or authority; as subst., ὁ κ., lord, master; 1. in general: with genitive of thing(s), Mat.9:38 20:8, Mrk.12:9 13:35, Luk.19:33; τ. σαββάτου, Mat.12:8, Mrk.2:28, Luk.6:5; with genitive of person(s), δούλου, etc., Mat.10:24, Luk.14:21, Act.16:16, al.; absol, opposite to οἱ δοῦλοι, Eph.6:5, 9 al.; of the Emperor (Deiss., LAE, 161), Act.25:26; θεοὶ πολλοὶ καὶ κ. πολλοί, 1Co.8:5; of a husband, 1Pe.3:6; in voc, as a title of respect to masters, teachers, magistrates, etc., Mat.13:27 16:22 27:63, Mrk.7:28, Luk.5:12, Jhn.4:11, Act.9:5, al. 2. As a divine title (frequently in π.; Deiss., LAE, 353 ff.); in NT, (a) of God: ὁ κ., Mat.5:33, Mrk.5:19, Luk.1:6, Act.7:33, Heb.8:2, Jas.4:15, al.; anarth. (Bl., §46, 6), Mat.21:9, Mrk.13:20, Luk.1:17, Heb.7:21, 1Pe.1:25, al.; κ. τ. οὐρανοῦ καὶ τ. γῆς, Mat.11:25; τ. κυριευόντων, 1Ti.6:15; κ. ὁ θεός, Mat.4:7, 10 al.; id. before παντοκράτωρ, Rev.4:8; κ. σαβαώθ, Rom.9:29; (ὁ) ἄγγελος κυρίου, Mat.1:20 2:13, Luk.1:11, al.; πνεῦμα κυρίου, Luk.4:18, Act.8:39; (b) of the Christ: Mat.21:3, Mrk.11:3, Luk.1:43 20:44, al.; of Jesus after his resurrection (Dalman, Words, 330), Act.10:36, Rom.14:8, 1Co.7:22, Eph.4:5, al.; ὁ κ. μου, Jhn.20:28; ὁ κ. Ἰησοῦς, Act.1:21, 1Co.11:23, al.; id. before Χριστός, Eph.1:2, al.; ὁ κ. ἡμῶν, 1Ti.1:14, Heb.7:14, al.; id. before Ἰησοῦς, 1Th.3:11, Heb.13:20, al.; Χριστός, Rom.16:18; Ἰ Χ., 1Co.1:2, 1Th.1:3, al.; Ἰ. Χ. (Χ. Ἰ) ὁ κ. (ἡμῶν), Rom.1:4, Col.2:6, Eph.3:11, al.; ὁ κ. καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ, 2Pe.3:2; id. before Ἰ. Χ., ib. 18; anarth., 1Co.7:22, 25 Jas.5:4, al.; κ. κυρίων, Rev.19:16; with prep., ἀπὸ (κατὰ, πρὸς, σὺν, etc.) κ., Col.3:24, al. SYN: see: δεσπότης. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

lord, master, sir; the Lord.

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How translators render G2962

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
lord 405
the lord 122
of the lord 54
master 41
lords 14
sir 14
masters 11
for the lord 5
owner 5
the lords 5
o lord 4
from the lord 3
is lord 3
to the lord 3
as lord 2
of lords 2
of the lord is 2
owners 2
a master 1
he 1
his 1
if all this is so then the lord 1
is the lord 1
lord away 1
lord be 1
lord from the dead 1
lord is 1
lord to jealousy 1
of the lords 1
our lord 1
our sovereign 1
sirs 1
the lord is 1
the lord would 1
the owner 1
then lord 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the lord 285
lord 248
of the lord 118
of 15
to the lord 14
unto the lord 13
sir 11
masters 8
o lord 8
the lords 8
lords 6
unto 3
for the lord 2
of lords 2
a master 1
after the lord 1
by the lord 1
for 1
is the lord 1
master 1
of god 1
of our lord 1
of the lords 1
on the lord 1
shall 1
sirs 1
that belong to the lord 1
that the lord 1
the 1
the lords sake 1
the master 1
the owners 1
unto my lord 1

Verses containing G2962

Page 7 of 13. 650 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Acts 16:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

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  2. Acts 16:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.

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  3. Acts 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.

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  4. Acts 16:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

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  5. Acts 16:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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  6. Acts 16:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Paul and Silas spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.

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  7. Acts 17:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

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  8. Acts 18:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.

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  9. Acts 18:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.

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  10. Acts 18:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

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  11. Acts 19:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

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  12. Acts 19:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

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  13. Acts 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I command you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”

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  14. Acts 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.

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  15. Acts 19:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the word of the Lord powerfully continued to spread and prevail.

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  16. Acts 20:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.

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  17. Acts 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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  18. Acts 20:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

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  19. Acts 20:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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  20. Acts 21:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

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  21. Acts 21:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When he would not be dissuaded, we quieted down and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”

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  22. Acts 22:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    ‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,’ He replied.

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  23. Acts 22:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’

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  24. Acts 22:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    ‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.

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  25. Acts 23:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”

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  26. Acts 25:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.

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  27. Acts 26:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    ‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.

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  28. Acts 28:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  29. Romans 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  30. Romans 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  31. Romans 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

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  32. Romans 4:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

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  33. Romans 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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  34. Romans 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

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  35. Romans 5:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  36. Romans 6:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  37. Romans 7:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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  38. Romans 8:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  39. Romans 9:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”

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  40. Romans 9:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

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  41. Romans 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

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  42. Romans 10:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,

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  43. Romans 10:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

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  44. Romans 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

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  45. Romans 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?

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  46. Romans 11:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

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  47. Romans 12:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

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  48. Romans 12:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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  49. Romans 13:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

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  50. Romans 14:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

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