Definition

mastery, i.e. (concretely and collectively) rulers

Etymology

from G2962 (κύριος);

Word family

• κύριος kýrios

How the KJV renders it

• dominion
• government

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.