Muthos refers to accounts rejected, avoided, or contrasted with truth and eyewitness testimony.

Across the supplied verses, the term denotes accounts treated negatively: listeners are told not to attend to them, to reject them, or are said to wander into them; they are also contrasted with truth and with eyewitness testimony.

1. Accounts rejected or set against truth · dominant

   The plural forms occur in clauses of avoidance or contrast. In 1 Timothy 1:4 the APB renders a warning not to pay attention to them because they furnish speculations; in 1 Timothy 4:7 it renders a command to reject them. In 2 Peter 1:16 they are contrasted with eyewitness testimony, while 2 Timothy 4:4 and Titus 1:14 place turning toward or paying attention to them alongside turning from or rejecting truth.

   1 Timothy 1:41 Timothy 4:72 Peter 1:162 Timothy 4:4Titus 1:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently uses "myths," adding descriptive wording in 1 Timothy 4:7 and 2 Peter 1:16. These renderings confirm the verses' presentation without isolating every nuance of the Greek term.