ΜΥΘΙΖΟΝΤΕΣ, μυθιζοντες
MYTHIZONTES, mythizontes
Sounds Like: moo-THI-zon-tes
Translations: telling fables, fabricating, inventing, relating myths
From the root: ΜΥΘΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'telling fables' or 'fabricating'. It describes an ongoing action of creating or relating stories, often with the implication that these stories are fictional or mythical rather than factual. It can be used to describe people who are in the act of inventing tales or myths.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G3454 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 6:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΥΘΙΖΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΥΘΙΖΩ — to tell fables, to invent fables, to mythologize
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