Strong's Lexicon
G3453 — μυέω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3453 |
|---|---|
| Word: | μυέω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from the base of G3466 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | mueo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | moo-eh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to initiate 2. (by implication) to teach |
| KJV Renderings: | instruct |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μυέω, μύω: perfect passive μεμύημαι; (from μύω to close, shut ((cf. Latinmutus); Curtius, § 478));
a. to initiate into the mysteries (Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plato, Plutarch, others; 3Ma 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, Php 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.).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
μυέω (instruct)
Philippians 4:12
- KJV: I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need
- GK: οίδα και ταπεινούσθαι οίδα και περισσεύειν εν παντί και εν πάσι μεμύημαι και χορτάζεσθαι και πεινάν και περισσεύειν και υστερείσθαι