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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 - So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became [fn]contemptible in her sight.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and [fn]humble yourself under her hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 -

Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness 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 - And she said to her mistress, “I wish that my master were before the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:2 -

Behold, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a servant-girl to the hand of her mistress,

So our eyes look to Yahweh our God,

Until He is gracious to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:23 -

Under [fn]an unloved woman when she gets a husband,

And a servant-girl when she supplants her mistress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:2 - And the people will be like the priest, the male slave like his master, the female slave like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
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