Footnote

a In most cases, they either replaced the divine name with the Greek word Kyʹri·os (Lord), The·osʹ (God), or an abbreviation of one of these words. Many standard dictionaries of ancient Greek state that these two Greek words have been used as equivalents of the divine name.​—See A Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament, by J. Parkhurst, revised edition of 1845; The New Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, by J. H. Thayer, 1981; A Greek-English Lexicon, by Liddell and Scott, 1996; A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third Edition, 2000.