Wes Wood wrote:I am reading Bel and the Dragon today, and I came across this word. I can't find it in a lexicon that I have. I am fairly confident that it means something like "lordship," but I want to be sure. It is so similar to κυρειον that it has me second-guessing myself. Is there any possibility the similarity is intentional?
Thanks in advance for the help. Here is the whole verse (5?) sorry there are no accents:
Ο δε ειπεν, οτι οu σεβομαι ειδωλα χειροποιητα, αλλα τον ζωντα Θεον, τον κτισαντα τον ουρανον και την γην και εχοντα πασης σαρκος κυρειαν.
The LSJ defines it as "proprietary rights."
κῡριεία
κῡρι-εία, ἡ,
proprietary rights, Mitteis Chr.31 v 37 (ii B.C.), IG22.1006.28 (ii B.C.), SIG685.133 (pl., Magn.Mae., ii B.C.), BGU1187.7 (i B.C.):—written κυριήα Mon. Anc.Gr.17.22:—later contr. κυρεία, κυρία (q.v.).
My LEH LXX lexicon gives:
κυριεία,-ας N1F 0-0-1-7-3=11
Is 40,10; DnLXX11,3.4; DnTh4,22 (19); 6,27
authority, power Is 40,10; dominion, lordship, empire DnLXX11,3
Cf. WALTERS 1973, 40
Lust, J., Eynikel, E., & Hauspie, K. (2003). A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint : Revised Edition. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart.
Also under LSJ, if you follow the little clue they give you above...
κῡρία
κῡρί-α, ἡ,
authority, power, Arist.Mir.837a5, etc.; possession, control, οἴνου Plb.6.11A.4; ταμιείου Id.6.13.1; τοῦ ἐπαποστεῖλαι στρατηγόν Id.6.15.6; κυρίαν ἔχειν περί τινος Id.6.14.10.—
The form κυρεία is freq. found in Pap. and Inscrr. from i B.C., as BGU1123.6 (i B.C.), PAmh.2.95i6(ii A.D.), and codd., as Plb.6.11A.4, LXX Da.11.5, Thd. Da.4.19, 6.26(7), Ph.2.52 (v.l.), Ath.10.440f(v.l.), EM427.9, and is required by metre in Man.4.606: contr. from κυριεία (q.v.).
So your instinct was right...