Lexical Summary ephphatha: be opened! Original Word: ἐφφαθάTransliteration: ephphatha Phonetic Spelling: (ef-fath-ah') Part of Speech: Aramaic Transliterated Word (Indeclinable) Short Definition: be opened! Meaning: be opened! Strong's Concordance Ephphatha. Of Chaldee origin (pthach); be opened! -- Ephphatha. see HEBREW pthach Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2188: ἐφφαθάἐφφαθά, ephphatha, Aramaic אֶתְפָּתַח (the ethpaal imperative of the verb פְּתַח, Hebrew פָּתַח, to open), be thou opened (i. e. receive the power of hearing; the ears of the deaf and the eyes of the blind being considered as closed): Mark 7:34. (See Kautzsch, Gram. d. Biblical-Aram., p. 10.) |