μυστήριον

Detailed Definition

• 1hidden thing, secret, mystery
• 2generally mysteries, religious secrets, confided only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals
• 3a hidden or secret thing, not obvious to the understanding
• 4a hidden purpose or counsel
• 5in rabbinic writings, it denotes the mystic or hidden sense: of an old testament saying, of an image or form seen in a vision, of a dream