Lexicon muthos: a speech, story, i.e. a fable Original Word: μῦθος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: muthos Phonetic Spelling: (moo'-thos) Short Definition: an idle tale, fable Definition: an idle tale, fable, fanciful story. HELPS word-Studies 3454 mýthos – a myth; a false account, yet posing to be the truth; a fabrication (fable) which subverts (replaces) what is actually true. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitiona speech, story, i.e. a fable NASB Translationfables (1), myths (3), tales (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3454: μῦθοςμῦθος, μυθου, ὁ, from Homer down; 1. a speech, word, saying. 2. a narrative, story; a. a true narrative. b. a fiction, a fable; universally, an invention, falsehood: 2 Peter 1:16; the fictions of the Jewish theosophists and Gnostics, especially concerning the emanations and orders of the aeons, are called μυθοι (A. V. fables) in 1 Timothy 1:4; 1 Timothy 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:4; Titus 1:14. (Cf. Trench, § xc., and references under the word γεναλογια.)
Strong's fable. Perhaps from the same as mueo (through the idea of tuition); a tale, i.e. Fiction ("myth") -- fable. see GREEK mueo |
    |