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Lexicon :: Strong's G2959 - kyria

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κυρία
Transliteration
kyria (Key)
Pronunciation
koo-ree'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
2x in 2 unique form(s) TR
2x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
8x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:1095,486

Strong’s Definitions

Κυρία Kyría, koo-ree'-ah; feminine of G2962; Cyria, a Christian woman:—lady.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2959 in the following manner: lady (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2959 in the following manner: lady (2x).

  1. a Christian woman to whom the second Epistle of John is addressed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Κυρία Kyría, koo-ree'-ah; feminine of G2962; Cyria, a Christian woman:—lady.
STRONGS G2959:
κυρία, κυρίας, ἡ, Cyria, a Christian woman to whom the Second Epistle of John is addressed: 2 John 1:1, 5 (G L T K C (and WH marginal reading in 2 John 1:1)). This proper name is not uncommon in other writers also; cf. Lücke, Comm. üb. die Brr. des Joh. 3rd edition, p. 444. (But R Tr others κυρία, regarding the word as an appellative, lady; (αἱ γυναῖκες εὐθύς ἀπό τεσσαρεσκαίδεκα ἐτῶν ὑπό τῶν ἀνδρῶν κυριαι καλοῦνται, Epictetus enchir. 40). Cf. Westcott on 2 John as above).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 John
1:1; 1:1; 1:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2959 matches the Greek κυρία (kyria),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:4 - And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 - And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - The angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 - After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:2 - Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maidservant
to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the LORD our God,
till he has mercy upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:23 - an unloved woman when she gets a husband,
and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:2 - And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
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