Adonai

Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?

Adonai simply means Lord or master. When one is Lord over you, it means they have some kind of authority over you. It's first usage was in Genesis 4 when God spoke to Cain after He had killed his brother Abel.

God is Lord over all that He created. Some preachers have coined words in those lines to refer to Jesus by saying that  "if Jesus is not Lord over your life, then He is not Lord at all." He is either Lord or Lord, nothing less and nothing more. 

We have many who call themselves or called lords on earth, such as landlords, in school especially primary, we used to refer to our teachers as "master"; you have also heard of kung fu masters if you are a film fan, in courts of law the judge is referred to as "my lord", in former British colonies the mayor of the capital city  is called Lord Mayor, some lower leaders are called Lord councillors etc. Their realm of authority is nothing compared to God's authority and Lordship which surpasses all. They are also not Lord over us as pertaining salvation of our souls at all. Believers calling them Lord shouldn't be a conflict at all in matters of allegiance and worship.

Adonai is written as LORD in many accounts in the Bible, a term intentionally placed there to replace Yahweh, God's personal name something which some religions have made a great deal of, calling themselves after that name Jehovah. Yahweh was so revered by the Jews that sometimes they would skip it when they found it written in a scripture lest they pronounce it poorly. An easier word, Adonai which would not cause offence was used by the translaters. Lord with small letters would be used to refer to Jesus or even men who had some kind of authority. David for example mentioned LORD and Lord in the same sentence referring to God the Father and Jesus respectively. In Numbers Moses was referred to as lord by the family heads when they had a case before him. 

God not only owns everything, but He is also LORD over all things, Hallelujah. 

Further scriptures 

Numbers 36:1-2 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

Psalms 110:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

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