μυέω
myéō · G3453 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to learn a secret
To learn the secret of something through personal experience or as the result of initiation
ExamplesPhilippians 4:12 I know how to get along with little, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- διδάσκω didáskō · G1321 · to teach, teaching
- διδάσκω is the common Greek verb for teaching and overlaps with μυέω's pedagogical sense, though διδάσκω lacks the specialized nuance of initiation into secrets or mysteries that μυέω carries.
In the other Testament 1 word
- לָמַד lâmad · H3925 · learn, to teach, to instruct
- The Hebrew לָמַד is the standard verb for teaching/learning and would be a natural translation equivalent for μυέω in its sense of instructing or initiating someone into knowledge, particularly in Philippians 4:12 where Paul speaks of being 'initiated' or 'taught' the secret of contentment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To learn a secret27.14
- This sense denotes being initiated into a hidden truth. Philippians 4:12 has Paul say he has “learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μύω: perfect passive μεμύημαι; (from μύω to close, shut ((cf. Latinmutus); Curtius, §…
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, Phm 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.).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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