Κύριε (Kyrie)

Κύριε is an Ancient Greek form of κύριος, meaning “lord, master; having authority”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of ξυριυς, “(garbled form)”. It is the vocative singular masculine.

Found 208 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

New Testament, Matthew 7.21: Οὐ πᾶς ὁ λέγων μοι Κύριε κύριε εἰσελεύσεται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἀλλʼ ὁ ποιῶν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.

New Testament, Revelation 7.14: καὶ εἴρηκα αὐτῷ Κύριέ μου, σὺ οἶδας. καὶ εἶπέν μοι Οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ ἐρχόμενοι ἐκ τῆς θλίψεως τῆς μεγάλης, καὶ ἔπλυναν τὰς στολὰς αὐτῶν καὶ ἐλεύκαναν αὐτὰς ἐν τῷ αἵματι τοῦ ἀρνίου.

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 6.36: … θέντα παιδαγωγὸν πάντων αὐτῷ μᾶλλον οἰκειότατον εἶναι, προσελθὼν αὐτῷ κατ’ ἰδίαν, ἔφη· Γινώσκειν σε βούλομαι, κύριέ μου, ὅτι ἔμπορος ἐγὼ ἐκ μακρᾶς ἐλήλυθα χώρας, καὶ ὑπάρχει μοι λίθος τίμιος, ᾧ παρόμοιος πώποτε οὐχ εὑρέθη. κα …

All forms of κύριος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.