Strong's Number 3466
Transliteration:
musterion
{moos-tay'-ree-on}
Word Origin:
from a derivative of muo (to shut the mouth)
TDNT:
4:802,615
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
mystery 27
Total: 27
Definition:
- hidden thing, secret, mystery
- generally mysteries, religious secrets, confided only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals
- a hidden or secret thing, not obvious to the understanding
- a hidden purpose or counsel
- secret will
- of men
- 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
- in rabbinic writings, it denotes the mystic or hidden sense: of an OT saying, of an image or form seen in a vision, of a dream