What is "KURIAKOS"?

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Sun May 23 12:58:40 EDT 1999


On Sat 22 May 99 , klbarney at yahoo.com wrote:
> When I  think of the word KURIAKOS I immediately think of Rev. 1:10: 
> EN PNEUMATI EN THi KURIAKHi hHMERAi, but I never would have thought to
> connect the Greek KURIAKOS with English "church."

 Kevin:

 The "church" is defined as hH KURIAKH EKKLHSIA, from Hebrew Q:HaL-YHWH;
 modern Hebrew Q:HiLaT-HaMMa$iYaCh. The English took their word Church
 from KURIAKH, whereas the French took their word Eglise from EKKLHSIA,
 Latin ecclesia.

 Ben
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