STRONGS G3453:
μυέω,
μύω: perfect passive
μεμύημαι; (from
μύω to close, shut ((cf. Latin
mutus);
Curtius, § 478));
a. to initiate into the mysteries (
Herodotus,
Aristophanes,
Plato,
Plutarch, others; 3Macc. 2:30).
b. universally, "to teach fully, instruct; to accustom one to a thing; to give one an intimate acquaintance with a thing":
ἐν παντί καί ἐν πᾶσι μεμύημαι, to every condition and to all the several circumstances of life have I become accustomed; I have been so disciplined by experience that whatsoever be my lot I can endure,
Philippians 4:12; (but others, instead of connecting
ἐν παντί etc. here (as object) with
μεμύημαι (a construction apparently without precedent; yet cf. Lünemann in
Winer's Grammar, § 28, 1) and taking the infinitives that follow as explanatory of the
ἐν παντί etc., regard the latter phrase as stating the sphere (see
πᾶς, II. 2 a.) and the infinitives as epexegetic (
Winers Grammar, § 44, 1):
in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled etc.).
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