Word 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.)