Vocabulary Form
κύριος
Definition

Lord; master, sir

Frequency
717
GK
3261
Cognates

Kurie eleison is a petitionary prayer that is usedby some Eastern and Roman churches.

Mnemonics

I am curious! Who is lord and master of your life?

Mnemonic Singing

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

Biblical Concordance

Acts 14:23 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, praying with fasting, they committed them to the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc) in whom they had believed.
Acts 15:11 But through the grace of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus we believe that we will be saved, in the same way as those also.”
Acts 15:17 so that the rest of men may seek the Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc), namely, all the Gentiles on whom my name has been called, says the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc), who makes these things
Acts 15:26 men who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus Christ.
Acts 15:35 But Paul and Barnabas continued on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), with many others also.
Acts 15:36 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return indeed and visit the brothers in every city in which we announced the word of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) to see how they are.”
Acts 15:40 but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended to the grace of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) by the brothers.
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple cloths from the city of Thyatira, a worshipper of God, listened; and the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) opened her heart to respond to what was said by Paul.
Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc), come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.
Acts 16:16 Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl who had a spirit of divination, met us. She brought great profit to her masters (kyriois | κυρίοις | dat pl masc) by fortune-telling.
Acts 16:19 When her owners (kyrioi | κύριοι | nom pl masc) saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
Acts 16:30 Then he brought them outside and asked, “Sirs (kyrioi | κύριοι | voc pl masc), what must I do to be saved?”
Acts 16:31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc) Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:32 And they spoke the word of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) to him, along with all who were in his house.
Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,
Acts 18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc), together with his entire household; and many of the Corinthians upon hearing about it, believed and were baptized.
Acts 18:9 And the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) said to Paul during the night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,
Acts 18:25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc); and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
Acts 19:5 Upon hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus.
Acts 19:10 This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), both Jews and Greeks.
Acts 19:13 But some also of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, tried to invoke the name of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus over those having evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by that Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
Acts 19:17 And this became known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived in Ephesus. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus was exalted.
Acts 19:20 So the word of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) continued to spread and grow in power.
Acts 20:19 serving the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc) with all humility and with tears, enduring the trials that fell on me by the plots of the Jews;
Acts 20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks about repentance toward God and about faith in our Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc) Jesus.