Strong’s G3454 · Greek
μῦθος
mŷthos · moo'-thos
Origin perhaps from the same as μυέω (G3453) (through the idea of tuition);
Meaning a tale, i.e. fiction ("myth")
In the King James Version fable.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Timothy 1:4Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
- 1 Timothy 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
- 2 Timothy 4:4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
- Titus 1:14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
- 2 Peter 1:16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.