is used (1) transitively, (a) literally, of “a door or gate,” e.g., Act 5:19<\/span>; graves, Mat 27:52<\/span>; a sepulchre, Rom 3:13<\/span>; a book, e.g., Luk 4:17<\/span> (some mss. have No. 4); Rev 5:2-5<\/span>; Rev 10:8<\/span>; the seals of a roll, e.g., Rev 5:9<\/span>; Rev 6:1<\/span>; the eyes, Act 9:40<\/span>; the mouth of a fish, Mat 17:27<\/span>; “the pit of the abyss,” Rev 9:2<\/span>, RV; heaven and the heavens, Mat 3:16<\/span>; Luk 3:21<\/span>; Act 10:11<\/span> (for Act 7:56<\/span>, see No. 2); Rev 19:11<\/span>; “the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven,” Rev 15:5<\/span>; by metonymy, for that which contained treasures, Mat 2:11<\/span>; (b) metaphorically, e.g., Mat 7:7-8<\/span>; Mat 25:11<\/span>; Rev 3:7<\/span>; Hebraistically, “to open the mouth,” of beginning to speak, e.g., Mat 5:2<\/span>; Mat 13:35<\/span>; Act 8:32<\/span>, Act 8:35<\/span>; Act 10:34<\/span>; Act 18:14<\/span>; Rev 13:6<\/span> (cp., e.g., Num 22:28<\/span>; Job 3:1<\/span>; Isa 50:5<\/span>); and of recovering speech, Luk 1:64<\/span>; of the earth “opening,” Rev 12:16<\/span>; of the “opening” of the eyes, Act 26:18<\/span>; the ears, Mar 7:35<\/span> (in the best mss.; some have No. 2); (2) intransitively (perfect tense, Active, in the Greek), (a) literally, of “the heaven,” Joh 1:51<\/span>, RV, “opened;” (b) metaphorically, of “speaking freely,” 2Co 6:11<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to open up completely” (dia, “through,” intensive, and No. 1), is used (a) literally, Luk 2:23<\/span>; Act 7:56<\/span>, in the best mss.; (b) metaphorically, of the eyes, Mar 7:34<\/span>; Luk 24:31<\/span>; of the Scriptures, Luk 24:32<\/span>; Act 17:3<\/span>; of the mind, Luk 24:45<\/span>, RV (AV, “understanding”); of the heart, Act 16:14<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to lead,” or “to keep or spend a day,” is so used in Act 19:38<\/span>, see KEEP, Note (2). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to unroll” (ana, “back,” ptusso, “to roll”), is found in some mss. in Luk 4:17<\/span> (of the roll of Isaiah), and translated “He had opened” (AV); see No. 1. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) For Heb 4:13<\/span>, “laid open,” RV (AV, “opened”) see LAY, No. 18. (2) In 2Co 3:18<\/span>, AV, anakalupto, “to unveil,” is translated “open” (RV, “unveiled,” which consistently continues the metaphor of the veil upon the heart of Israel). (3) In Mar 1:10<\/span>, AV, schizo, “to rend” or “split,” is translated “opened,” of the heavens, RV, “rent asunder,” AV marg., “cloven, or, rent.” (4) For prodelos, in 1Ti 5:24<\/span>, AV, “open beforehand,” see EVIDENT, A, No. 3. (5) For “be opened” See EPHPHATHA. (6) For “open (your hearts),” 2Co 7:2<\/span>, RV, see RECEIVE, No. 18. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “an opening” (akin to A, No. 1), is used in Eph 6:19<\/span>, metaphorically of the “opening” of the mouth as in A, No. 1 (2), (b). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “an opening, a hole,” is used in Jam 3:11<\/span>, of the orifice of a fountain: see CAVE, HOLE, PLACE. <\/p>\n Open, opening is used (1) transitively, (a) literally, of “a door or gate,” e.g., Act 5:19; graves, Mat 27:52; a sepulchre, Rom 3:13; a book, e.g., Luk 4:17 (some mss. have No. 4); Rev 5:2-5; Rev 10:8; the seals of a roll, e.g., Rev 5:9; Rev 6:1; the eyes, Act 9:40; the mouth of a … Continue reading “Open, opening”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"