Lexical Summary myeō: to initiate into the mysteries, to instruct Original Word: μυέωTransliteration: myeō Phonetic Spelling: (moo-eh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to initiate into the mysteries, to instruct Meaning: to initiate into the mysteries, to instruct Strong's Concordance instruct. From the base of musterion; to initiate, i.e. (by implication) to teach -- instruct. see GREEK musterion Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3453: μυέωμυέω, μύω: perfect passive μεμύημαι; (from μύω to close, shut ((cf. Latinmutus); Curtius, § 478)); a. to initiate into the mysteries (Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plato, Plutarch, others; 3Macc. 2:30). b. universally, "to teach fully, instruct; to accustom one to a thing; to give one an intimate acquaintance with a thing": ἐν παντί καί ἐν πᾶσι μεμύημαι, to every condition and to all the several circumstances of life have I become accustomed; I have been so disciplined by experience that whatsoever be my lot I can endure, Philippians 4:12; (but others, instead of connecting ἐν παντί etc. here (as object) with μεμύημαι (a construction apparently without precedent; yet cf. Lünemann in Winer's Grammar, § 28, 1) and taking the infinitives that follow as explanatory of the ἐν παντί etc., regard the latter phrase as stating the sphere (see πᾶς, II. 2 a.) and the infinitives as epexegetic (Winers Grammar, § 44, 1): in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled etc.). |
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