Genesis 43:20
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
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Sir
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Revelation 7:14
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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κύριος
kýrios · koo'-ree-os
11 times translated as this KJV form763 total Strong's occurrences
supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication, Master (as a respectful title)
Strong's KJV usage: :-- God, Lord, master, Sir.
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Strong's first: Matthew 13:27Strong's last: Revelation 7:14
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ʼâdôwn · aw-done'
1 times translated as this KJV form335 total Strong's occurrences
sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine)
Strong's KJV usage: lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with 'Adoni-'.
Strong's first: Genesis 43:20Strong's last: Genesis 43:20
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So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
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And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
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Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
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sir
SIR, noun sur.
1. A word or respect used in addresses to men, as madam is in addresses to women. It signifies properly lord, corresponding to dominus in Latin, in Spanish, and herr in German. It is used in the singular or plural. Speak on, sir But sirs, be sudden in the execution.
2. The title of a knight or baronet; as sir Horace Vere.
3. It is used by Shakespeare for man. In the election of a sir so rare. [Not in use.]
4. In American colleges, the title of a master of arts.
5. It is prefixed to loin, in sirloin; as a sirloin of beef. This practice is said to have originated in the knighting of a loin of beef by one of the English kings in a fit of good humor.
6. Formerly the title or a priest.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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