μῦθος
mythos · myth
Greek word · Strong’s number G3454 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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mythos (μῦθος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “myth”.
A made-up story.
How to say it
my·thos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- An invented tale presented as if it were true.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- 1 Timothy 1:4
nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which provide speculations rather than God’s administration that is in faith, so do now.
- 1 Timothy 4:7
But refuse the profane and old wives’ myths. Rather, train yourself for godliness;
- 2 Timothy 4:4
and they will turn away their ears from the truth and turn aside to myths.
- Titus 1:14
not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of people who turn away from the truth.
- 2 Peter 1:16
For it was not by following cleverly devised myths that we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.