κύριος | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

κύριος, -ου, ὁ

Definition

Lord; lord, master, sir

Erasmian

Modern

Root

κυριο

Frequency

717

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.

Song

Verse

“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is κύριος,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)

“κύριος, you have no bucket and the well is deep.” (John 4:11)

Mnemonics

Pronunciation of word

Above pronunciation was with two “p” . Pronunciation should be ku/ pi/ os

Biblical Concordance

John 11:21	Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
John 11:27	She said to him, “Yes, Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc); I firmly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world.”
John 11:32	When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
John 11:34	He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), come and see.”
John 11:39	Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), by now the body will smell because it has been buried for four days.”
John 12:13	took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to cry out, “Hosanna! Blessed in the name of the Lord (kyriou \| κυρίου \| gen sg masc) is the coming one, even the king of Israel!”
John 12:21	So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), we would like to see Jesus.”
John 12:38	that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), who has believed what they heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord (kyriou \| κυρίου \| gen sg masc) been revealed?”
John 13:6	He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), are you going to wash my feet?”
John 13:9	Simon Peter exclaimed, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), then wash not only my feet but also my hands and my head!”
John 13:13	You call me ‘Teacher!’ and ‘Master!’ (kyrios \| κύριος \| nom sg masc) and you speak rightly, for so I am.
John 13:14	If I, then, your Master (kyrios \| κύριος \| nom sg masc) and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:16	I tell you the solemn truth, the servant is not greater than his master (kyriou \| κυρίου \| gen sg masc), nor is the one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.
John 13:25	So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), who is it?”
John 13:36	Simon Peter said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”
John 13:37	Peter said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
John 14:5	Thomas said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
John 14:8	Philip said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
John 14:22	Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
John 15:15	No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master (kyrios \| κύριος \| nom sg masc) is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 15:20	Remember the saying that I told you, ‘The servant is not greater than his master.’ (kyriou \| κυρίου \| gen sg masc) If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours as well.
John 20:2	So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken our Master (kyrion \| κύριον \| acc sg masc) out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!”
John 20:13	They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Master (kyrion \| κύριον \| acc sg masc), and I do not know where they have put him.”
John 20:15	Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who is it that you are looking for?” Thinking that he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir (kyrie \| κύριε \| voc sg masc), if you are the one who carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away.”
John 20:18	Mary Magdalene went and reported to the disciples, “I have seen the Master!” (kyrion \| κύριον \| acc sg masc) and she told them that he had said these things to her.