Lexical Summary mythos: a speech, story, a fable Original Word: μῦθοςTransliteration: mythos Phonetic Spelling: (moo'-thos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a speech, story, a fable Meaning: a speech, story, a fable Strong's Concordance fable. Perhaps from the same as mueo (through the idea of tuition); a tale, i.e. Fiction ("myth") -- fable. see GREEK mueo Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |