Word

μῦθος

mŷthos · G3454 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

legend, myth, tale, story, fable

A legendary story or account, normally about supernatural beings, events, or cultural heroes, and in the NT always with an unfavorable connotation

Examples
1 Timothy 1:4 nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to useless speculation rather than advance the plan of God, which is by faith, so I urge you now.
1 Timothy 4:7 But stay away from worthless stories that are typical of old women. Rather, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;
2 Timothy 4:4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 3 groups

γραώδηςlike old women say 1
ἸουδαϊκόςJudaïc 1
βέβηλοςworldly 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 2 groups

οἰκονομίαplan, stewardship 1
παρέχωto cause, to give, to provide 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

παραιτέομαιto ask for 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπίon 2

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Legend, myth, tale, story, fable33.13: This sense denotes an invented, unhistorical narrative, contrasted with genuine truth. 1 Timothy 1:4 warns against paying attention “to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to useless speculation rather than advance the plan of God, which is by faith.”

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μῦθοςmŷthos · G3454παραμυθέομαι paramythéomai · G3888 · to console, to comfort, to encourage · 4×παραμυθία paramythía · G3889 · consolation, encouragement · 1×παραμύθιον paramýthion · G3890 · consolation, encouragement · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μυθου, ὁ, from Homer down; 1. a speech, word, saying. 2. a narrative, story; a. a true…

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 Pet 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 Tim 1:4; 1 Tim 4:7; 2 Tim 4:4; Tit 1:14. (Cf. Trench, § xc., and references under the word γεναλογια.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Discourse Types5 occurrences

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