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"Jesus is Lord" (Greek: Κύριος Ἰησοῦς, Kýrios Iēsoûs) is the shortest credal affirmation found in the New Testament, one of several slightly more elaborate variations. [1] It serves as a statement of faith for the majority of Christians who regard Jesus as both fully man and God .
Jan 4, 2022 · The statement “Jesus is Lord” means that Jesus is God. Jesus has “all authority in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18). He is Lord of the Sabbath (Luke 6:5). He is “our only Sovereign and Lord” (Jude 1:4). He is, in fact, the Lord of lords (Revelation 17:14).
The Greek word kurios has a number of different meanings. It can mean sir, master, owner, or even refer to an idol. However on a number of occasions it is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Yahweh or Jehovah. This is the divine name for God. Jesus Christ is designated as the Lord in many New Testament references.
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As a second temple Jewish man growing up in early first century Israel, Jesus’ native tongue would have been Aramic. As such, his actual birth name would have been Yeshua, which is simply the Aramaic rendering of the Hebrew Yehoshua(Joshua). At some point in the Hebrew language, the consonant -h was dropped from the name Yehoshua, leading to the sp...
While Aramaic would have been Jesus’ native tongue, he definitely would have understood and spoken Greek, as it was the lingua francaof the day. In other words, Greek is the global language that would have been spoken by everyone in the Mediterranean region for commerce and other social purposes. It’s highly unlikely that Jesus would have been call...
After the Greek Iesous came the Latin Iesus, from which we get our spelling Jesus. To understand why we spell and pronounce certain names in the Bible the way we do, we first have to understand a bit about where our Bible came from. At first glance, the answer seems pretty simple. Our Old Testament comes from the Hebrew Bible and our New Testament ...
This has been a rather nerdy post about one of my favorite subjects. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter whether we say Jesus or Joshua. What matter is that Jesus’ name, his entire identity, is built upon the fact that Yahweh is a God who saves. Yahweh is a God who is defined by salvation. That is the name given to Jesus by the ange...
Here Paul states that one day people will confess Jesus Christ as “Lord.” This does not merely mean “master.” Rather it means that Jesus Christ is Yahweh, the God of the Bible. When Paul wrote to the Romans, He used kurios to refer to the divine name [Yahweh]. Therefore, Jesus is the Lord.
Original Word: κύριος, ου, ὁ. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine. Transliteration: kurios. Phonetic Spelling: (koo'-ree-os) Definition: lord, master. Usage: lord, master, sir; the Lord. HELPS Word-studies. 2962 kýrios – properly, a person exercising absolute ownership rights; lord (Lord).
Jul 15, 2008 · As we have seen, the old Greek version of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint translates the Hebrew Yahweh and adonai as kurios. Yahweh is the revealed name of God in Hebrew and Adonai is one of His titles; thus, kurios, or “Lord,” is the most important title for God in the Septuagint, which is quoted throughout the New Testament.
