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NASB | Psalm 83:18 That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 83:18 That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth. |
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Bible Note: kurios (Strong's Number 2962) In the KJV NT "kurios" [kyrios] is translated "Lord" 667 times.* ____________________ 'The Septuagint rendered yhwh as kyrios [kurios] (Lord). The line from yhwh to adonai to kyrios [kurios] is significant for the Pauline statement: "And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Php 2:11).' ____________________ [The Septuagint is "a Greek version of the Jewish Scriptures redacted in the 3d and 2d centuries B.C. by Jewish scholars and adopted by Greek-speaking Christians" (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary).] 'Yahweh/Yah. YHWH, THE TETRAGRAMMATON BECAUSE OF ITS FOUR LETTERS, IS, STRICTLY SPEAKING, THE ONLY PROPER NAME FOR GOD. 'It is also the most frequent name, occurring in the Old Testament 6,828 times (almost 700 times in the Psalms alone). Yah is a shortened form that appears fifty times in the Old Testament, including forty-three occurrences in the Psalms, often in the admonition "hallelu-jah" (lit. praise Jah). English Bibles represent the name yhwh by the title "LORD" (written in capitals to distinguish it from "lord" [adonai]. The Septuagint rendered yhwh as kyrios [kurios] (Lord). The line from yhwh to adonai to kyrios [kurios] is significant for the Pauline statement: "And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Php 2:11).' (Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi) ____________________ *"Lord" 667 times. (Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Kurios". "The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon". www.biblestudytools.net) |