Mŷthos — G3454

Definition

masculine noun

a tale, i.e. fiction ("myth")

1. a speech, word, saying
2. a narrative, story
1. a true narrative
2. a fiction, a fable

Usually translated as

fable

Origin

perhaps from the same as G3453 (through the idea of tuition)

• myéō (G3453)

Occurrences

Mŷthos occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Timothy (2), 2 Timothy (1), Titus (1), 2 Peter (1)

• 1 Timothy 1:4 — Neither give heed to fables (μύθοις) and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
• 1 Timothy 4:7 — But refuse profane and old wives’ fables (μύθους), and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
• 2 Timothy 4:4 — And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (μύθους).
• Titus 1:14 — Not giving heed to Jewish fables (μύθοις), and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
• 2 Peter 1:16 — For we have not followed cunningly devised fables (μύθοις), when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.