noun · feminine
kuriotas
Strong’sG2963
lordship, domination, dignity
stem kuriot-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† κυριότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< κύριος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2963 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo-ree-ot'-ace
mastery, i.e. (concretely and collectively) rulers
Fromfrom G2962;
King Jamesdominion, government.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
dominion, NT
2 later, concrete, authority, Refs 6th c.AD+
II proper, legitimate use of a term, Refs 5th c.AD+; = Latin proprietas, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kuriotas | kuriotais1×κυριότητες |
| object accusative | kuriotan1×κυριότητα | kuriotain |
| direct address vocative | kuriotar | kuriotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kuriotau2×κυριότητος | kuriotaiu |
| to, for dative | kuriota | kuriotai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kuriota is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
kuriotan“authority”objectaccusative singular1×
Jude 1:8… kai houtois enupniazorōntois sarkan men mianalō, kuriotan de athetalō, doxain de blasfēmalō.… these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
kuriotau“dominion”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Ephesians 1:21… archau kai exousiau kai dunamiau kai kuriotau kai panteu onomeu onomazorōnteu ouk monem …… all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named …
2 Peter 2:10… sarkau en epithumia miasmou poreuorōntoin kai kuriotau katafronarōntoin. Tolmētois, authadois, doxain ouk tremalō, …… desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid …
kuriotais“dominions”subjectnominative plural1×
Colossians 1:16… kai teim aorateim, eite thronois eite kuriotais eite archais eite exousiais; teim panteim …… visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things …