μυέω, -G: pf. pass. μεμύημαι; (fr. μύω to close, shut [(cf. Lat. mutus); Curtius § 4781); a. to initiate into the mysteries (Hdt., Arstph., Plat., Plut., al.; 3 Mace. li. 30). b. univ. to teach fully, instruct; to accustom one to a thing; to give one an intimate acquaintance with a thing: ἐν παντὶ x. ἐν πᾶσι μεμύημαι, to every condition and to all the several circumstances of life have I become wonted; I have been so disciplined by experience that whatsoever be my lot I can endure, Phil. iv. 12; [but others, instead of connecting ἐν παντί etc. here (as object) with peu. (a constr. apparently without precedent; yet cf. Liinemann in W. § 28, 1) and taking the infinitives that follow as explanatory of the ἐν παντί ete., regard the latter phrase as stating the sphere (see πᾶς, II. 2 a.) and the infinitives as epexegetic (W. § 44, 1): in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled ete. ].

μυέω myeō 1x

to initiate, instruct in the sacred mysteries; in NT pass. to be disciplined in a practical lesson, to learn a lesson, Phil. 4:12*

** μυέω, -ῶ

(< μύω, to shut the mouth), [in LXX: III Mac 2:30*;]

to initiate into the mysteries (so chiefly in cl.; LXX, III Mac 2:30); hence, to instruct: pass., Phl 4:12 (RV, I have learned the secret).†

μυέω. For the original technical use of this verb, ‘‘initiate”’ into the mysteries, which may underlie the Pauline usage in Phil 415 (cf. 3 Macc 289), it must be enough to refer to such passages from the inscrr. as OG/S 530° θεοπρόποι. . . οἵτινες μυηθέντες ἐνεβάτευσαν, 16. 764!" (ii/B.c.) ταῖς ma |payeyevnpevats θεωρίαις εἰς τὰ Νικηφόρια καὶ μυηθείσαις, with the editor's note, ‘‘quae legationes ad Nicephoria venerunt et per eam occasionem mysteriis Cabirorum initiatae sunt.” The subst. μύησις occurs ézs in the latter document-—* ἥι[περ ἐπιβάλλον ἣν ἡμέραι τὴν τῶν ἐφήβων μύησιν ἐπιτελεῖσθαι, " τό τε τῆς μυήσεως ἕνεκεν ἀθρο[ισθὲν πλῆθος ἐδείπνισεν ἐν τῶι. In later eccles. Greek 6 μυούμενος denotes one who is about to be baptized, a candidate for baptism: cf. Anrich Das antike Mysterienwesen (Gottingen, 1894), p. 158, Inge Chrestian Mysticrsm, pp. 4, 349, and for a similar use of μύησις see SAA/ 1. ἘΣ δὲ

μυέω (mueō) — to initiate. μῠέω, (μύω, which see) initiate into the mysteries, μυῶν.. ἄλλους ξένους [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—more frequently in passive, to be initiated, ὁ βουλόμενος μυεῖται [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ μεμυημένοι[Refs 5th c.BC+]; μυηθῆναι ἀφ᾽ ἑστίας, see at {ἑστί; τοῦ ἀφ᾽ ἑστίας μυουμένου} probably in [Refs 1st c.AD+]; θεοπρόποι ἦλθον.., οἵτινες μυηθέντες ἐνεβάτευσαν [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with accusative cognate, to be initiated in a thing, τὰ μυστήρια μυεῦνται [Refs 1st c.AD+]; ὅστις τὰ Καβείρων ὄργια μεμύηται in the mysteries of the Cabiri, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ μεγάλα (i.e. μυστήρια) μεμύησαι, πρὶν τὰ σμικρά [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. generally, teach, instruct, with infinitive, ἐμύησάς τινα ἰδεῖν [Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, μεμύημαι καὶ χορτάζεσθαι καὶ πεινᾶν [NT+4th c.AD+]