διανοίγω

διανοίγω — dianoígō

διανοίγω; imperfect διηνοιγον; 1 aorist διήνοιξα; passive, 1 aorist διηνοιχθην; (2 aorist διηνοιγην); perfect participle διηνοιγμενος (Act 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, Luk 2:23 (Exo 13:2, etc.); οὐρανούς, passive, Act 7:56 L T Tr WH; the ears, the eyes, i. e. to restore or to give hearing, sight: Mar 7:34-35 R G; Luk 24:31 (Gen 3:5; Gen 3:7; Isa 35:5; 2Ki 6:17, etc.).

2. tropically: τάς γραφάς, to open the sense of the Scriptures, explain them, Luk 24:32; τόν νοῦν τίνος, to open the mind of one, i. e. cause him to understand a thing, Luk 24:45; τήν καρδίαν, to open one's soul, i. e. to rouse in one the faculty of understanding or the desire of learning, Act 16:14 (2Ma 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, Act 17:3. Cf. Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 19f.