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κυρίου (kyriou)

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

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

Found 902 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 558: ἡμῶν ἀπόντων τοῦ τε κυρίου σέθεν.

New Testament, Matthew 1.20: Ταῦτα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐνθυμηθέντος ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος Κυρίου κατʼ ὄναρ ἐφάνη αὐτῷ λέγων Ἰωσὴφ υἱὸς Δαυείδ, μὴ φοβηθῇς παραλαβεῖν Μαρίαν τὴν γυναῖκά σου, τὸ γὰρ ἐν αὐτῇ γεννηθὲν ἐκ πνεύματός ἐστιν ἁγίου·

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.