Thayer's
STRONGS NT 1272: διανοίγωδιανοίγω; imperfect
διηνοιγον; 1 aorist
διήνοιξα; passive, 1 aorist
διηνοιχθην; (2 aorist
διηνοιγην); perfect participle
διηνοιγμενος (
Acts 7:56 L T Tr WH); (on variations of augment see references under the word
ἀμπογππ); the
Sept. chiefly for
פָּקַח and
פָּתַח; occasionally in secular authors from
Plato,
Lysias, p. 210 a. down;
to open by dividing or drawing asunder (
διά),
to open thoroughly (what had been closed);
1. properly: ἄρσεν διανοῖγον μήτραν, a male opening the womb (the closed matrix), i. e. the first-born, Luke 2:23 (Exodus 13:2, etc.); οὐρανούς, passive, Acts 7:56 L T Tr WH; the ears, the eyes, i. e. to restore or to give hearing, sight: Mark 7:34, 35 R G; Luke 24:31 (Genesis 3:5, 7; Isaiah 35:5; 2 Kings 6:17, etc.).
2. tropically: τάς γραφάς, to open the sense of the Scriptures, explain them, Luke 24:32; τόν νοῦν τίνος, to open the mind of one, i. e. cause him to understand a thing, Luke 24:45; τήν καρδίαν, to open one's soul, i. e. to rouse in one the faculty of understanding or the desire of learning, Acts 16:14 (2 Macc. 1:4; Themistius, orat. 2 de Constantio imp. (p. 29, Harduin edition) διανοίγεται μου ἡ καρδία καί διαυγεστερα γίνεται ἡ ψυχή); absolutely, followed by ὅτι, to explain, expound namely, αὐτάς, i. e. τάς γραφάς, Acts 17:3. Cf. Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 19f.
