G3466 – musterion – μυστήριον – a mystery, secret
- Strong’s ID:
- G3466
- Greek Word:
- μυστήριον
- Transliteration:
- musterion
- Pronunciation:
- moos-tay’-ree-on
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Etymology:
- from a derivative of μυω muo (to shut the mouth)
- Usage Count:
- 27
- Search:
- Find “musterion” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
a mystery, secret
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from a derivative of μυω muo (to shut the mouth); a secret or “mystery” (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites):—mystery.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) hidden thing, secret, mystery
1a) generally mysteries, religious secrets, confided only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals
1b) a hidden or secret thing, not obvious to the understanding
1c) a hidden purpose or counsel
1c1) secret will
1c1a) of men
1c1b) of God: the secret counsels which govern God in dealing with the righteous, which are hidden from ungodly and wicked men but plain to the godly
2) in rabbinic writings, it denotes the mystic or hidden sense
2a) of an OT saying
2b) of an image or form seen in a vision
2c) of a dream
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.