G2962

• {"n":"kurios","s":"Lord. Also sir, and also the Septuagint's replacement for the divine name.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=kurios","r":"Romans 10:9","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads Lord, with lowercase lord or sir where a human is addressed."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Yes, sir.** **He is lord of the manor.** **The Lord.** English has the same word doing three jobs and separates them with a capital letter."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Kurios covers a polite sir, a master or owner, and in the Septuagint it stands in for YHWH wherever the name occurs. So a quotation like Joel 2:32 arriving in Romans 10:13 carries the divine name inside an ordinary Greek noun."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English uses capitalisation to mark the difference, a device Greek manuscripts do not have and speech cannot carry."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"If a quotation hinges on the word Lord, look up whether the underlying Hebrew had the divine name there. That's usually the whole argument."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Lord is the universal rendering; sir appears where a stranger is addressed, as at John 4:11."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03ba\u03cd\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 kurios \u00b7 G2962"}],"src":["kurios for YHWH throughout the Septuagint","Joel 2:32 quoted at Romans 10:13","kurios as sir: John 4:11; 20:15"]}