1200 occurrences

'Lord' in the Bible

Then Abram said, "O Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? {I continue to be} childless, and {my heir} is Eliezer of Damascus."

Verse ConceptsAbrahamMoney, Stewardship OfWhat God Gives

And he said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your eyes do not pass by your servant.

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessPassing ByFavor

And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if thirty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] if I find thirty there."

Verse ConceptsThirtyLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he said, "Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the twenty."

Verse ConceptsTwentyNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the ten."

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfTen PeopleLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To GodWorth

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, "my Lord, will you even kill a righteous people?"

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfAbsence Of SexGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesPlea Of Innocence

"Hear us, my lord, you [are] a mighty prince in our midst. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites. None of us {will withhold his burial site} from you [for] burying your dead."

Verse ConceptsPrincesAbraham, In SocietySepulchresConsentThe Cave Of MachpelahBurying places

"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave which [is] in it, I [also] give it to you in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

Verse ConceptsCaves For BuryingIn Men's PresencePeople Giving Other Things

"My lord, hear me. A [piece of] land [worth] four hundred shekels of silver--what [is] that between me and you? Bury your dead."

Verse ConceptsReal EstateUnimportant Things

And she said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly lowered her jar in her hand and gave him a drink.

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersHasty ActionPutting Things Down

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be lord of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you."

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfServing PeopleSalutationsBlessing Through God's PeopleCursing Israel

Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and [with] grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?"

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleProviding Wine

And she said to her father, "Let there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women [is] with me. And he searched carefully and did not find the idols.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationBleedingSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot FindingNot Able To Get Upwomanhood

And he instructed them, saying, "Thus you must say to my lord, to Esau, 'Thus says your servant Jacob, I have dwelled as an alien with Laban, and I have remained [there] until now.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietySojourning

And I have acquired cattle, male donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves, and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.'"

Verse ConceptsGoatsCowsOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

Then you must say, 'To your servant, to Jacob. It [is] a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. Now behold, he [is] also [coming] after us.'"

And he said, "{What do you mean by} all this company that I have met?" Then he said, "To find favor in the eyes of my lord."

Verse ConceptsMeaning

But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children [are] frail, and the flocks and the cattle [which are] nursing [are a concern] to me. Now [if] they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the pace of the children until I come to my lord in Seir."

Verse ConceptsSlownessPeople Going Before

And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he said, "{What need is there}? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And it happened [that] after these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and [his] baker did wrong against their lord, against the king of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerBakersArts And Crafts, Types ofOffenceButlersWronging Other People

And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

Verse ConceptsBuying Foodvulnerability

"The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as [if we were] spying out the land.

Verse ConceptsSpying

Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you [are] honest. Leave one [brother] with me, and take [food for] the famine in your households and go.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

And they said to him, "Why has my lord spoken according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!

Behold, the money that we found in the mouth of our sacks we returned to you from the land of Canaan. Now why would we steal silver or gold from the house of my lord?

Verse ConceptsStealingIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Whoever is found with it from among your servants shall die. And moreover, we will become slaves to my lord."

Verse ConceptsApproval To Kill

And Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? Now how can we show ourselves innocent? God has found the guilt of your servants! Behold, we [are] slaves to my lord, both we and also he in whose hand the cup was found."

Verse ConceptsBeing Found OutAcquitting The Just

But Judah drew near to him and said, "Please my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and {let not your anger burn} against your servant, for {you are like Pharaoh himself}.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

My lord had asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular Questions

And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger [brother], the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

Then we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he would die.'

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPeople Abandoning People

And it happened [that] we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

Verse ConceptsVicarious SubstitutionHalf brothers

Hurry, and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not delay.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPeople Who DelayedHurrying Others On

When that year ended, they came to him in the following year and said to him, "We cannot hide from my lord that [our] money and livestock belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land.

Verse ConceptsBodyHerdsLimitations Of The BodyIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodThings Revealed

And they said, "You have saved our lives. [If] we have found favor in the eyes of my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."

Verse ConceptsSubjectionKept Alive By MenGroups Of SlavesIndividuals Saving Others

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I [am] not a man of words, {neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking} to your servant, because I [am] heavy of mouth and of tongue."

Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

And he said, "Please, Lord, do send {anyone else whom you wish to send}."

Verse ConceptsIndecisionAaron, PositionDifferent PersonGod Sending Prophets

And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble to this people? Why ever did you send me?

Verse ConceptsGod Sending ProphetsGod TroublingWhy Does God Do This?

You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance, a place you made for yourself to inhabit, Yahweh, a sanctuary, Lord, [that] your hands established.

Verse ConceptsHousesSanctuaryGod's DwellingMetaphorical Planting

Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsMen WorshippingThree Times A YearFestivals Observed

And Aaron said, "{Let not my lord become angry}. You yourself know the people, that {they are intent on evil}.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleGod's People Sinning

And he said, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, Lord, let my Lord, please, go among us--indeed it is a stiff-necked people--and forgive our iniquity and our sin and {take us as your possession}."

Verse ConceptsPrayer, For OthersStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf WillGod Goes With YouGod Forgive!

Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel,

Verse ConceptsMen WorshippingThree Times A Year

And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, "Moses, my lord, stop them."

Verse ConceptsWork From YouthServant Leadershipservanthood

So Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, please do not put on us [this] sin [in] which we were foolish and [in] which we have sinned.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsFolly, Effects OfConfession, Examples OfAaron, Character

But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just has you spoke,

So the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben said to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.

Verse ConceptsReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

but your servants, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross over {before} Yahweh to the war, just as my lord says."

Verse ConceptsRiver Crossings

And they said, "Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the {Israelites}, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

'Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand, for what god [is there] in the heaven or on the earth who can do according to your works and according to your mighty deeds?

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivinePower Of God, DescribedMiracles Showing God's PowerBeginning Of SalvationNo One Is Like GodNo Other Acts Like Godgreatness

And I prayed to Yahweh, and I said, 'Lord Yahweh, you must not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you redeemed in your greatness, whom you brought out from Egypt with a strong hand.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, As RedeemerGod, Majesty OfGod, Power OfPeople Of God, In OtRedemption, In Everyday LifeAbundance, SpiritualGod's HandGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth [is about to] cross [over] ahead of you into the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark Moved AroundIn The JordanNature Of GodThings Going Before

When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off {upstream}, and they will stand [still in] one heap.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodBearingCessationDry LandFeet In ActionIn The JordanNature Of GodThings Stopping

And he said, "Neither. I have come now [as] the commander of Yahweh's army." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and {he bowed down} and said to him, "What [is] my lord commanding his servant?"

Verse ConceptsGesturesAttitudes, in prayerProstrationGod As A WarriorDivinityServant LeadershipResolving Conflictarmyreverence

And Joshua said, "Ah, my Lord! Why did you bring this people across the Jordan to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content and stayed beyond the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsSadnessCrossing Into The Promised LandGod Will Cause DefeatWhy Does God Do This?

Please, my Lord! What can I say after {Israel has fled from its enemies}?

Verse ConceptsTurning One's BackDefeat Of God's People

And they waited so long they became embarrassed because he did not open the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened [the doors], and there their lord was lying on the ground dead.

Verse ConceptsKeys

And Jael came out to meet Sisera, and she said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me and do not be afraid." So he turned aside into her tent, and she covered him {with a blanket}.

Verse ConceptsDo Not Fear Men

Gideon said to him, "Excuse me, my lord. [If] Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, 'Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has forsaken us; he has given us into the palm of Midian."

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHistoryWhy Does This Happen?God Will Cause DefeatMiraclesgideon

He said to him, "Excuse me, my lord. How will I deliver Israel? Look, my clan [is] the weakest in Manasseh, and I [am] the youngest in my father's house."

Verse ConceptsExcusesClansdoubtersInferiorityMinistry, Qualifications ForModestyWeakness, PhysicalLeadershipHumility, Examples OfThe Youngest ChildWithout StrengthDepressiongideon

And Gideon realized that he [was] the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Oh, my lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face."

Verse ConceptsExperience, of GodBeing Face To Face With GodThose Who Saw Godgideon

Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, "Excuse me, my Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent again come to us and teach us what we should do concerning the boy who will be born."

Verse ConceptsGod TeachingMan Of GodNamed Individuals Who PrayedRaising Children

And Samson called to Yahweh and said, "My Lord Yahweh, remember me! Please give me strength this one time, O God, so that I can repay [with] one act of revenge to [the] Philistines for my eyes."

Verse ConceptsAboundingSeeking God's StrengthEyes HarmedTwo Of Body PartsMan AvengingNamed Individuals Who PrayedRevenge

And she said, "May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken {kindly to your servant}, and I am not one of your servants."

Verse ConceptsKindnessMaidsSuffering, Encouragements Inreassurance

But Hannah answered and said, "No, my lord. I am a woman {deeply distressed}, but I have not drunk wine [or] strong drink. [Rather], I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsA Broken WomanPouringPrayer, Described AsStrong DrinkDrunkennessAntidepressantsStress And Hard TimesA Broken HeartPrayer During Hard Timessoulheartbrokenwomanbeeralcoholism

She said, "Excuse me, my lord. As {you live}, my lord, I [am] the woman who stood with you in this [place] to pray to Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Practicalities OfStandingThis Is Me

Please, let our lord command your servants [who are] before you! Let them seek a man skilled in playing on the lyre. {When} the evil spirit from God [is] upon you, he can play {on it} and {you will feel better}."

Verse ConceptsHarpsInstrumentalists

Saul said, "Listen please, son of Ahitub." He said, "Here I [am], my lord."

Verse ConceptsBehold Me!

He said to his men, "Far be it from me in Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh's anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he [is] the anointed one of Yahweh."

Verse Conceptsethics, socialCivic DutiesHonouring RulersResistanceThe Anointed OneThe Lord's Anointed

Then David got up afterward and went out of the cave and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked after him, David knelt down [with his] face to the ground and bowed down.

Verse ConceptsBowingProstration

Look, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you. But {I took pity} on you and said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, because he [is] Yahweh's anointed one.'

Verse ConceptsThe Lord's AnointedGiven Into One's Hands

She fell at his feet and said, "On me, my lord, [be] the guilt! Please let your female servant speak {to you personally}! Hear the words of your female servant!

Verse ConceptsFeetBowing Before David

Please do not let my lord set his heart against {this worthless man}, Nabal; for as his name, so [is] he. Nabal [is] his name, and stupidity [is] with him! But I, your female servant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFoolish PeoplePeople With Apt Names

So then, my lord, {as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives}, since Yahweh restrained you from bloodguilt {by taking matters into your own hand}, so then, may your enemies be like Nabal, even {those who seek to do my lord harm}.

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingNot Avenging

So then, this gift which your female servant has brought to my lord, may it be given to the young men {who follow my lord}.

Verse ConceptsPresents

Please forgive the transgression of your female servant, because Yahweh will certainly make a lasting house for my lord, because my lord [is] fighting the battles of Yahweh, and evil will not be found in you {as long as you live}.

Verse ConceptsForgive One AnotherFighting EnemiesForgiving Others Who Hurt You

Should a man arise to pursue you and to seek your life, may the life of my lord be wrapped in the pouch of the living with Yahweh your God. But as for the life of your enemy, he will sling it from within the pocket of the sling!

Verse ConceptsSlingsThrowing Stones

{And then} when Yahweh has done for my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you as leader over Israel,

Verse ConceptsSaul And David

then this will not be an obstacle for you or a stumbling block of conscience for my lord [either] by the shedding of blood without cause or by {my lord taking matters into his own hands}. And when Yahweh does good to my lord, then remember your female servant."

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingRemembering PeopleNot Avenging

So David said to Abner, "[Are] you not a man? And who [is] like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy your lord the king.

Verse ConceptsUnique IndividualsPeople Keeping

This thing that you have done [is] not good. {As Yahweh lives}, {surely you people deserve to die} since you have not kept watch over your lord, over Yahweh's anointed one! So then, see where the king's spear [is] and the jar of water that [was] near his head!"

Verse ConceptsDrinking WaterThe Lord's Anointed

Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "[Is] this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "[It is] my voice, my lord the king."

Verse ConceptsVoicesIs It Really?Recognising Things

Then he said, "Why [is] my lord pursuing after his servant? For what have I done? And what evil [is] in my hand?

Verse ConceptsWhat Sin?

And so then, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant: If Yahweh has incited you against me, may he delight in an offering; but if {it is mortals}, [may] they be accursed {before} Yahweh, for they have driven me away today from sharing in the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In ChristDifferent GodsCursing The UngodlyEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

But the commanders of [the] Philistines were angry with him and they said to him, "Send the man back so that he might return to his place where you have assigned him! But he will not go down with us into the battle, so that he does not become an adversary to us in the battle. By what could this fellow make himself favorable to his lord? Is it not with the heads of these men?

Verse ConceptsSending people homeUnnamed People Angry With Others

Then David said to Achish, "But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day that I {entered your service} until this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Sin?

So then, rise early in the morning, [you] and the servants of your lord who came with you. When you rise early in the morning and it is light [enough] for you, leave.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Rose EarlyEarly Rising

So I stood over him and killed him, for I knew that he could not live after his falling; I took the crown that [was] on his head and [the] bracelet which [was] on his arm; and here, I have brought them to my lord.

Verse ConceptsBraceletsHeadsHead coveringOrnamentsKilling Kings

So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and said to them, "May you be blessed by Yahweh because you did this loyal love with your lord, with Saul, and you buried him.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutKindnessMay God Bless!

So then, let your hands be strong and {be valiant}, for your lord Saul [is] dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them."

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsBe Courageous!

And Abner said to David, "Let me get up and go and gather all of Israel to my lord the king, that they may {make a covenant} with you so you can reign over all which your soul desires." So David dismissed Abner, and he left in peace.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsMaking Kings

They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, "Here [is] the head of Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given to my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring."

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who [am] I, my lord Yahweh, and what [is] my house that you have brought me up to {this place}?

Verse ConceptsHumilityModestyPrayer, Advice For EffectivePrayer, Practicalities OfSittingPeople Sitting DownI Am UnimportantFamily LoveLove And Familymindfulness

Still, this [was] {insignificant} in your eyes, my lord Yahweh, and also you have spoken about the house of your servant from afar, and this [may be] the teaching of humans, my lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFutureRevelation Of The FutureMan's Relation To God

{What more can David say to you}? You know your servant, my lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowing

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

אדני 
'Adonay 
Lord , lord , God
Usage: 438

מרא 
Mare' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

κύριος 
Kurios 
Lord , lord , master , sir , Sir ,
Usage: 643

אדּיר 
'addiyr 
Usage: 27

אזן 
'ozen 
Usage: 187

בּעלי בּמות 
Ba`aley Bamowth 
lords of the high places
Usage: 0

גּביר 
G@biyr 
Usage: 2

חללה חלילה 
Chaliylah 
God forbid , far be it , be...far , Lord forbid ,
Usage: 20

יהּ 
Yahh 
LORD , JAH
Usage: 49

יהוה 
Y@hovih 
GOD , LORD
Usage: 302

סרן 
Ceren 
Usage: 22

רב 
Rab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 15

רברבן 
Rabr@ban (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

רוּד 
Ruwd 
Usage: 4

שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ שׁלישׁo 
Shaliysh 
Usage: 20

שׂר 
Sar 
Usage: 421

δεσπότης 
Despotes 
Usage: 10

κατακυριεύω 
Katakurieuo 
Usage: 2

κυριακός 
Kuriakos 
Usage: 2

κυριεύω 
Kurieuo 
Usage: 6

μεγιστᾶνες 
megistanes 
Usage: 2

ῥαββονί ῥαββουνί 
Rhabboni 
Usage: 2