LADY

la'-di: This word should be taken in the sense of "mistress" in Isaiah 47:5,7 (Hebrew gebhereth) (so the American Standard Revised Version). In Judges 5:29; Eat 1:18 it is the translation of another Hebrew word (sarah), best rendered "princess" (so the Revised Version (British and American) in Esther, but not in Judges). In 2 John 1:1,5 it is the translation of kuria, which some interpreters regard as a proper name.

See CYRIA ; JOHN, GOSPEL OF ,THE EPISTLES OF ; ELECT LADY .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.