The divine name certainly fits within the dictionary, lexical and semantic range of Lord/Kurios, and this is why many other versions/translations have seen fit to also include the name in their New Testaments. Ultimately, our oldest and most comprehensive lexicon of Kurios usage in the New Testament is the Septuagint itself. It has been suggested that the majority of quotations in the New Testament were taken from the Septuagint. Therefore, if we go to the logical conclusion, based on the following facts, we will see that the New Testament usage of Kurios means YHWH or Jehovah. Even if we discount the fact that our earliest manuscripts of the Septuagint used the Tetragrammaton, we know that the Septuagint was translated from the Hebrew Scriptures. The Hebrew Scriptures used the divine name. We have proof of this in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Masoretic text. Therefore, at some point the Septuagint translators either translated the Tetragrammaton as Kurios or the scribes replaced the name at a later date. Now, using our current manuscript copies of the New Testament which use only Kurios, and because the quotations and other references to the God of the Hebrew Scriptures in the New Testament come from the Septuagint, the meaning behind the word Kurios would be the divine name. . The NWT simply uses a different, valid lexical English word for Kurios to refer to the divine name in New Testament quotations and elsewhere when God is mentioned. Double Standards in Translation Critics like to point out that because the NWT translators used the term Jehovah, they did not faithfully follow the Greek New Testament manuscripts in relation to the word Kurios 237 times. These critics are adamant when it comes to translating the Greek word Kurios...... middle of article ......ios based on the lexicons listed above and many others. 4) The external evidence and history of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures of the Old Testament strongly reference the original NT manuscripts using the Tetragrammaton. The Book of Revelation The book of Revelation gives us our greatest insight into the use of God's name in the New Testament. The imagery of the book of Revelation is very similar to the prophetic books of the Old Testament where the name was frequently used. But more than that, the book of Revelation can be used to refute most theories as to why the divine name was not used in the New Testament. The book uses many references to the name of God. This is not simply some sort of reference to the character of God, since we are told that this name is written on something several times. You can't write someone's character on their forehead. These must be references to a literal name.