dianoigō · open

What it means

dianoigō (διανοίγω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “open”.

Fully; explain.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Open fully: eyes, heavens, heart, understanding.
2. To open up the meaning of the Scriptures.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• opened ×5
• explaining ×1
• he was opening ×1
• opens ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• Luke×4
• Acts×3

• Mark 7:34

  and looking up to heaven, he sighed and says to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”

• Luke 2:23

  (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord”),

• Luke 24:31

  And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from them.

• Luke 24:32

  And they said to one another, “Was not our heart burning within us while he was speaking to us on the road, while he was opening to us the Scriptures?”

• Luke 24:45

  Then he opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

• Acts 7:56

  and he said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

• Acts 16:14

  And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, was listening; the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was spoken by Paul.

• Acts 17:3

  explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah.”