Word Summary
kyriotēs: lordship
Original Word: κυριότηςTransliteration: kyriotēs
Phonetic Spelling: (koo-ree-ot'-ace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: lordship
Meaning: lordship
Strong's Concordance
dominion, government.
From kurios; mastery, i.e. (concretely and collectively) rulers -- dominion, government.
see GREEK kurios
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2963: κυριότηςκυριότης,
κυριότητος,
ἡ (
ὁ κύριος),
dominion, power, lordship; in the N. T.
one who possesses dominion (see
ἐξουσία, 4 c.
β.; cf. German
Herrschaft (or Milton's
dominations); in
Tacitus, ann. 13, 1 dominationes is equivalent to dominantes), so used of angels (
κύριοι,
1 Corinthians 8:5; see
κύριος, a. at the end):
Ephesians 1:21;
2 Peter 2:10;
Jude 1:8; plural
Colossians 1:16. (Ecclesiastical (e. g. '
Teaching' c. 4 [ET]) and Byzantine writings.)