opened

ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: neut nom /voc /acc pl

ἀνοικτά̱, ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: fem nom /voc /acc dual

ἀνοικτά̱, ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: fem nom /voc sg (doric aeolic)

ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: neut nom /voc /acc pl

ἀνοικτά̱, ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: fem nom /voc /acc dual

ἀνοικτά̱, ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: fem nom /voc sg (doric aeolic)

ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: masc acc sg

ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: neut nom /voc /acc sg

ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: masc acc sg

ἀνοικτός

capable of being opened: neut nom /voc /acc sg

⁺ V 2-1-5-10-15=33 Gn 42,27; Ex 3,5; Jos 5,15; Is 5,27; 14,17

A: to loose, to untie (bounds) [τι] Jb 39,5; to unbind, to unfasten, to open (a sack) [τι] Gn 42,27; to untie, to loose

M: to dishevel (hair) [τι] 3 Mc 1,4

ἐν τῷ λῦσαι τὸν νόμον when he opened the (book of the) law, when he explained or set forth the law 1 Ezr 9,46; οἳ ἔλυσαν μήτραν παρθένου who loosened, opened up the womb of a virgin (used euph- emistically of sexual intercourse) Jdt 9,2, cpr. Am 1,11

Cf. BASSER 1985, 297-300; HILL 1967, 49; MOORE 1985, 191; →TWNT

(→ἀναλύω, ἀπολύω, διαλύω, ἐκλύω, καταλύω, παραλύω, περιλύω, συλλύω, ὑπολύω,,)

-ας ⁺ ἡ N 1 15-3-7-3-5=33 Gn 20,18; 29,31; 30,22; 49,25; Ex 13,2

womb Gn 49,25

ἤνοιξεν τὴν μήτραν αὐτῆς he opened her womb, he made her fruitful Gn 29,31; πᾶν διανοῖγον μήτραν

every firstborn Ex 13,12

*Jdt 9,2 οἳ ἔλυσαν μήτραν παρθένου who loosened, opened up the womb of a virgin (euph. sexual intercourse) corr.? οἳ ἔλυσαν μίτραν παρθένου who loosened the girdle of a virgin, they violated a virgin

Cf. MOORE 1985 191(Jdt 9,2); MORENZ 1964, 256

λύω, poet. imper.

A

λῦθι Pi.Fr.85

: [tense] fut. λύσω [ῡ] Il.1.29, etc.: [tense] aor.

ἔλῡσα 18.244

, etc.: [tense] pf.

λέλῠκα Th.7.18

, Ar.V. 992 ( ἀπο-), etc.:— [voice] Pass., [tense] pf.

λέλῠμαι Il.8.103

, etc.: [tense] plpf. ἐλελύμην [ῠ] Od.22.186, etc.: [tense] aor. ἐλύθην, [dialect] Ep. λύθην [ῠ] 8.360, E.Hel. 860, Th.2.103, etc.: [tense] fut.

λῠθήσομαι Pl.Ti. 41b

, Isoc.12.116, etc., also λελύσομαι [ῡ] D.14.2, X. Cyr.6.2.37 ( ἀπο-): [dialect] Ep. [tense] aor. [voice] Pass. λύμην [ῠ] Il.21.80; λύτο [ῠ] ib. 114, but

λῦτο 24.1

(at beginning of line, v.l. λύτο);

λύντο 7.16

: also [ per.] 3sg. opt. [tense] pf.

λελῦτο Od.18.238

:—[voice] Med., [tense] fut.

λύσομαι Il.1.13

, etc.: [tense] aor.

ἐλυσάμην 14.214

: [tense] pf. [voice] Pass. λέλῦμαι in med. sense, D.36.45, Arist.Rh. 1400a22 (cf. δια-, κατα-λύω): [tense] fut. λύσομαι in pass. sense, ( δια-) Th.2.12, ( ἐπι-) Lys.25.33 codd. ( καταλύσεσθαι edd.), ( κατα-) X.Cyr.1.6.9.—Homer uses all tenses exc. [tense] pf. [voice] Act., [tense] pres. and [tense] fut. [voice] Pass. [In [tense] pres. and [tense] impf. [pron. full] ῡ always in [dialect] Att., [pron. full] ῠ mostly in [dialect] Ep., though Hom. has [pron. full] ῡ twice,

ἔλῡεν Il.23.513

, λῡει Od.7.74; also in compds.,

ἀλλῡεσκεν 2.105

, ἀλλῡουσαν ib. 109: in [tense] fut. and [tense] aor. 1 [pron. full] ῡ always: in other tenses [pron. full] ῠ always, exc. in the forms λελῦτο, λῦτο (v. supr.).] (Cf. Lat. luo (pay), re-luo, solvo (for se-luo), solūtus, etc.):— loosen:

I of things, unbind, unfasten, esp. clothes and armour, λῦσε δέ οἱ ζωστῇρα, θώρηκα, Il.4.215, 16.804; λ. παρθενίην ζώνην loose the maiden-girdle, of the husband after marriage, Od. 11.245; of the wife,

λύοι χαλινὸν ὑφ' ἥρωϊ παρθενίας Pi.I.8(7).48

;

ἔνθα παρθένει' ἔλυσ' ἐγὼ κορεύματα E.Alc. 177

; so

ἔλυσας.. ἅγνευμα σόν Id.Tr. 501

; freq. of the tackling of ships, λ. πρυμνήσια, ἱστία, λαῖφος, etc., Od.2.418, 15.496, 552, h.Ap. 406, etc. (never in Il.); λ. πρύμνας, νεῶν πόδα, E.Hec. 539, 1020, etc.: abs., λύειν, of ships, set sail,

λῦε, κυβερνήτα APl.1.6

*.9 ([place name] Panteleus); ἀσκὸν λ. untie a skin (used as a bag), Od.10.47: freq. in Trag., λ. στολάς, πέπλον, S.OC 1597, Tr. 924; λ. ἡνίαν slacken the rein, Id.El. 743; κλῄθρων λυθέντων when the gates have been opened, A.Th. 396; λ. γράμματα, δέλτον, open a letter, E.IA38 (anap.), 307; λ. πέδας, δεσμά, A.Eu. 645 ([voice] Pass.), E.HF 1123;

ἀρβύλας A.Ag. 945

; ἀρτάνας.. δέρης ἔλυσαν loosed it from my neck, ib. 876, cf. E.Hipp. 781:—[voice] Med., ἀπὸ στήθεσφιν ἐλύσατο κεστὸν ἱμάντα undid her belt, Il.14.214; but λύοντο τεύχεα they undid the armour for themselves, i.e. stripped it off (others), 17.318; later λυσαμένα πλοκαμῖδας unbinding her hair, Bion 1.20, etc.

b in various phrases, στόμα λ. open the mouth, E.Hipp. 1060, Isoc.12.96;

γλώσσας λ. εἰς αἰσχροὺς μύθους Critias 6.9

D.; λ. βλεφάρων ἕδραν wake up, E.Rh.8 (anap.); λ. ὀφρύν unfold the brow, Id.Hipp. 290;

λ. ἄχος ἀπ' ὀμμάτων S.Aj. 706

(lyr.), etc.

2 of living beings,

a of horses, etc., unyoke, unharness, opp. ζεύγνυμι, Od.4.35; ἐξ ὀχέων, ὑπὲξ ὀχέων, Il.5.369,8.504;

ὑφ' ἅρμασιν 18.244

;

ὑπὸ ζυγοῦ Od.4.39

:

ὑπὸ ζυγόφιν Il.24.576

;

ὑπ' ἀπήνης Od.7.6

(also in [voice] Med., μὴ.. ὑπ' ὄχεσφι λυώμεθα μώνυχας ἵππους unyoke our horses, Il. 23.7;

βόε λῦσαι Hes.Op. 608

); λύε μώνυχας ἵππους loosed them, Il.10.498; λ. κύνα let him loose, X.Cyn.6.13, etc.

b of men, release, deliver, esp. from bonds or prison, and so, generally, from difficulty or danger, Il.15.22, Od.8.345, 12.53, D.24.206, etc.; ὁ λύσων he that shall deliver, A.Pr. 771, 785: c. gen. rei,

τὸν.. θεοὶ κακότητος ἔλυσαν Od.5.397

, cf. Pi.P.3.50, etc.;

λ. τινὰ δεσμῶν A.Pr. 1006

;

ὄκνου S. Tr. 181

;

τὼ.. ἐκ δεσμοῖο λύθεν Od.8.360

, cf. Pi.O.4.23, A.Pr. 873, E.Hipp. 1244, Pl.R. 360c; also λ. δόμους ἁβρότατος rob the house of.., Pi.P.11.34; λ. τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς depose him from.., D.S.13.92:—[voice] Med., prop. get one loosed or set free,

λύσασθαί τινα δυσφροσυνάων Hes.Th. 528

;

ὅσπερ Ἰὼ πημονᾶς ἐλύσατο A.Supp. 1065

(lyr.):—[voice] Pass.,

λυθῆναι τὰς πέδας D.S.17.116

; λέλυται γὰρ λαὸς ἐλεύθερα βάζειν, ὡς ἐλύθη ζυγὸν ἀλκᾶς has been let loose to speak, since the yoke was loosed, A.Pers. 592 (lyr.).

c of prisoners, release on receipt of ransom, admit to ransom, release, Il.1.29, 24.137, 555, etc.;

λ. τινά τινι 1.20

, 24.561, Od.10.298; Σαρπηδόνος ἔντεα καλὰ λύσειαν would give them up, Il.17.163; in full,

λ. τινὰ ἀποίνων 11.106

;

χρημάτων μεγάλων Hdt.2.135

([voice] Pass.);

ἀνὴρ ἀντ' ἀνδρὸς λυθείς Th.5.3

:—[voice] Med., release by payment of ransom, get a person released, redeem, Il.1.13, 24.118, al., Od.10.284, 385, Pl.Mx. 243c, D.19.229;

λύσασθαί τινας ἐκ πολεμίων Lys.12.20

;

ἵππον X.An.7.8.6

;

ὅσους αὐτὸς ἐλυσάμην τῶν αἰχμαλώτων D.19.169

;

λ. τινὶ τὸ χωρίον Id.50.28

; ἑαυτοὺς λ. pay their own ransom, Id.19.169; buy from a pimp, Ar.V. 1353.

d λελύσθαι τῶν νόμων, = Lat. legibus solvi, D.C.53.18.

3 give up, [

θρόνον] λῦσον ἄμμιν Pi.P.4.155

.

II resolve a whole into its parts, dissolve, break up, λ. ἀγορήν dissolve the assembly, Il.1.305;

ἀγορὰς ἠμὲν λύει ἠδὲ καθίζει Od.2.69

, etc.:—[voice] Pass.,

λῦτο δ' ἀγών Il.24.1

;

μὴ λυθείη ἡ στρατιά X.Cyr.6.1.2

; πρὶν <ἂν>.. ἡ ἀγορὰ ( market)

λυθῇ Id.Oec. 12.1

;

λυθείσης τῆς συνουσίας Plb.5.15.3

.

2 of concrete objects, σπάρτα λέλυνται, i. e. have rotted, Il.2.135;

ῥαφαὶ δ' ἐλέλυντο ἱμάντων Od.22.186

; λ. τὴν σχεδίην break it up, Hdt.4.97; [ τὴν γέφυραν] X. An.2.4.17; τὴν ἀπόφραξιν ib.4.2.25.

3 esp. of physical strength, loosen, i. e. weaken, relax, λῦσε δὲ γυῖα made his limbs slack or loose, i. e. killed him, Il.4.469, al.;

ὅς τοι γούνατ' ἔλυσα 22.335

;

πολλῶν τε καὶ ἐσθλῶν γούνατ' ἔλυσεν 5.176

, etc.;

ἀλλά οἱ αὖθι λῦσε μένος 16.332

;

πέλεκυς λῦσεν.. βοὸς μένος Od.3.450

, cf. Il.17.29; but οἵ μοι καμάτῳ.. γούνατ' ἔλυσαν made my knees weak with toil, Od.20.118:—[voice] Pass., λύντο δὲ γυῖα, etc., as the effect of death, sleep, weariness, fear, Il. 7.16, etc.;

καμάτῳ φίλα γυῖα λέλυντο 13.85

, cf. Od.8.233;

αὐτοῦ λύτο γούνατα καὶ φίλον ἦτορ Il.21.114

, 425;

λύθη ψυχή τε μένος τε 5.296

, etc.;

λύθεν δέ οἱ ἅψεα πάντα Od.4.794

, 18.189;

λέλυται γυίων ῥώμη A.Pers. 913

(anap.);

λύεται δέ μου μέλη E.Hec. 438

;

λέλυμαι μελέων σύνδεσμα Id.Hipp. 199

(anap.).

b λύει βλέφαρα closes her eyes in sleep, S.Ant. 1302.

c metaph.,

λ. τὴν ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς πρὸς μάχην παρασκευήν X.HG7.5.22

.

4 undo, bring to naught, destroy,

πολίων κάρηνα Il.9.25

;

Τροίης κρήδεμνα 16.100

, Od.13.388, cf. B.Fr.16.7: generally, put an end to,

νείκεα Il.14.205

;

μελεδήματα 23.62

;

ἔριν E.Ph.81

, AP9.316.12 (Leon.);

πόλεμον Th.5.31

;

ἐπιμομφάν Pi.O.10(11).9

;

μέμψιν Democr.271

;

φόβον A.Th. 270

; φόβον καὶ τὴν ὑποψίαν Polystr.p.7 W., cf. Epicur.Sent.12;

μοχθήματα S.OC 1616

;

ἀνάγκας E.Supp.39

; βίον, i.e. die, Id.IT 692; αἰῶν' ἔλυσε, i.e. died, B.1.43;

λ. τὸ τέλος βίον S.OC 1720

(lyr.); μαχας Ar. Pax 991 (anap.);

νοσήματα Diocl.Fr.35

([voice] Pass.), cf. Gal.6.476;

κόπους Dsc.Eup.1.220

; forgive,

ἁμαρτήματα LXXJb.42.9

.

b in Prose, λ. νόμους repeal or annul laws, Hdt.3.82, D.3.10, Arist.Pol. 1269a15; οὐθὲν τῶν περὶ τὴν πολιτείαν ib. 1298b31;

λ. ψήφῳ τὸ παράνομον Aeschin. 3.197

([voice] Pass.), etc.;

ἐπεὶ ἐκεῖνοι ἔλυσαν τὰς σπονδὰς λελύσθαι μοι δοκεῖ ἡ ἐκείνων ὕβρις καὶ ἡ ἡμετέρα ὑποψία X.An.3.1.21

; rescind a vote,

ψῆφον λύει ὁ νόμος D.24.2

; revoke a will,

διαθήκην Is.6.33

, etc. (but in [voice] Pass., to be opened, of a will, POxy.715.19 (ii A. D.), etc.); unbind a spell, Iamb.Myst.3.27:—[voice] Pass., λέλυται πάντα all ties are broken, all is in confusion, D.25.25.

c as a technical term, solve a difficulty, a problem, a question,

λύεται ἡ ἀπορία Pl.Prt. 324e

, al.;

λ. ζήτημα Gal.6.436

.

d refute an argument, Pl.Grg. 509a, Arist.Rh. 1402b24,al.; cf.

λύσις 11.4b

,

λυτικός 11

.

e unravel the plot of a tragedy, opp. πλέκειν, Id.Po. 1456a10.

f λ. τὴν φάσιν, of the Moon, pass out of, Vett. Val.134.1, cf. 2.

5 break a legal agreement or obligation,

τὸν νόμον Hdt.6.106

;

τὰς σπονδάς Th.1.23

, 78, cf. 4.23, al.;

τὰ συγκείμενα Lys.6.41

; σίς κε τὰς ϝρήτας τάσδε λύση whoso breaks this agreement, Inscr.Cypr.135.29 H.

6 in physical sense, dissolve, λύθεν, opp. πάγεν, Emp.15.4; τὸ θερμὸν λύει, opp. πήγνυσι, Arist.Mete. 384b11, cf. 382b33 ([voice] Pass.);

ἀμμωνιακὸν ὄξει λύσας Gal.11.106

; melt,

παγείσας χιόνας Hdn.8.4.2

;

τι πυρὶ λ. Hippiatr.52

.

7 of medicines,

λ. τὴν κοιλίαν Arist.Pr. 863b29

, cf. Hp.Acut.(Sp.)38, Diocl.Fr.140; so of the effects of terror, Arist.Pr. 877a32 ([voice] Pass.).

8 resolve ¯ into [pron. full] ?λύωX?λύωX, in [voice] Pass., Heph.8, 10, Aristid. Quint.1.28.

III solve, fulfil, accomplish,

τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ μαντεῖα S.OT 407

;

ὅρκον Plb.6.58.4

.

IV atone for, make up for,

τὰς πρότερον ἁμαρτίας Ar.Ra.

691;

λύσων ὅσ' ἐξήμαρτον S.Ph. 1224

;

λ. φόνον φόνῳ Id.OT 101

, E. Or. 511;

αἱ πρόσοδοι λύουσι τἀναλώματα Diph.32.5

:—[voice] Med.,

τῶν πάλαι πεπραγμένων λύσασθ' αἷμα.. δίκαις A.Ch. 804

(lyr.).

V μισθὸν λύειν pay wages in full, quit oneself of them, used only in cases of obligation, X.Ages.2.31.

2 τέλη λύειν, = λυσιτελεῖν, pay, profit. avail, ἔνθα μὴ τέλη λύει φρονοῦντι where it boots not to be wise, S.OT 316: but more freq. λύει without τέλη, construed like λυσιτελεῖ, abs.,

λύει δ' ἄλγος E.Med. 1362

, cf. PSI4.400.16: c. dat. pers.,

φημὶ τοιούτους γάμους λύειν βροτοῖσιν E.Alc. 628

, cf.Hipp. 441: c. inf., πῶς οὖν λύει.. ἐπιβάλλειν; Id.Med. 1112 (anap.); ἐμοί τελύειτοῖσιμέλλουσιν τέκνοις τὰ ζῶντ' ὀνῆσαι it is good for me to benefit my living children by means of those to come, ib. 566;

λύει ἀπελθεῖν UPZ 77i12

(ii B.C.): c. acc. et inf., λύει γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδέν, οὐδ' ἐπωφελεῖ,.. θανεῖν it is not expedient that we should die ( οὐδ' ἐπωφελεῖ being parenthetic), S.El. 1005;

οὐ γάρ με λύει.. κακορροθεῖσθαι E.Sthen.Prol.35

; cf. λυσιτελέω.

οἴγω, Hes.Op. 819, etc. ; later [full] οἴγνυμι, AP9.356 (Leon.): [tense] fut.

A

οἴξω E.Cyc. 502

: [tense] aor.

ᾦξα Il.24.457

; but augm. forms usu. have ὠϊ- in [dialect] Ep. (v. infr.) ; part.

οἴξας Il.

(v. infr.): [dialect] Ion. [tense] pf. [voice] Pass.

ὤϊκται Herod.4.55

: the compd. ἀνοίγνυμι or ἀνοίγω (q. v.) is much commoner, cf. also διοίγνυμι :—open,

οἴξασα κληῖδι θύρας Il.6.89

; τῇσι θύρας ὤϊξε ib. 298 ;

οἴγειν κλῇθρα προσπόλοις λέγω E.HF 332

;

ξενῶνας οἴξας Id.Alc. 547

, cf. Com.Adesp.1211: abs., ᾦξε γέροντι he opened the door for the old man, Il.24.457 ; also [οἶνον].. ὤϊξεν ταμίη she opened the wine, Od.3.392 ; οἶγε πίθον open the wine-jar, Hes. l. c. ;

πρὸς φίλους οἴγειν στόμα A.Pr. 611

:—[voice] Pass., πᾶσαι δ' ὠΐγνυντο (v.l. ὠΐγοντο, i. e. ὠείγ-, in PHib.21)

πύλαι Il.2.809

, 8.58 ;

οἰχθέντος Ὡρᾶν θαλάμου Pi.Fr.75.14

;

ἡ θύρη.. ὤϊκται Herod.

l. c. ([dialect] Aeol. inf.

ὀείγην IG12(2).6.43

(Mytil.) ; part.

ὀείγων Alc.225

Lobel: prob. ὀ-ϝ ειγ- and ὀ-ϝῐγ-, cf. Skt. véga- 'quick movement' ; cf. ἐπῴχατο, προσοίγνυμι.)

πλᾰτύν-ω, ([etym.] πλατύς)

A widen,

τὰ φυλακτήρια Ev.Matt.23.5

;

τὴν εἰσβολήν J.BJ5.8.1

; π. τὸ στῖφος widen it out, ib.5.2.1;

τοὺς ἐφεξῆς στίχους Arr.Tact.17.2

: metaph.,

τὴν ψυχὴν εὐγενεστέραν τῆς φύσεως πλατύνας IG5(2).268.12

(Mantinea, i B.C.):—[voice] Med., τὴν γῆν πλατύνεσθαι widen one's territory, X.Cyr.5.5.34:—[voice] Pass., grow broad, widen out, Arist.Mir. 841a2, Mu. 393a23, etc.; of the pupils, to be dilated, Plu.2.376f: metaph.,

ἡ καρδία πεπλάτυνται

is opened, relieved from care,

2 Ep.Cor.6.11

;

ἐπλάτυνας τὴν καρδίαν μου LXXPs.118(119).32

.

2 ἐπλατύνθη.. τὸ στόμα μου was opened wide, ib. 1 Ki.2.1: hence, metaph., μὴ πλατυνθῇ ἡ καρδία be puffed up, ib.De.11.16:—[voice] Med., talk big of oneself, τί πλατύνεαι, ἠλίθιος ὥς; Timo 34.4.

3 pronounce broadly,

τὴν φωνήν Hermog.Id.1.6

, Harp. s.v. λαρυγγίζειν.

4 amplify,

τὸν λόγον Phld.Ind.Sto.24

;

τὴν ἑρμηνείαν Hermog.Prog.3

:—[voice] Pass.,

διήγησις πλατύνεται τρόποις Id.Inv.2.7

: abs., use amplification, D.H.Din.6.

χάσκω, Anacr.14.8, Ar.V. 1493 (anap.); subj.

A

χάσκῃς Id.Eq. 1032

(hex.); inf.

χάσκειν X.Eq.10.7

, ([etym.] ἐγ-) Ar.V. 721; part.

χάσκων Sol. 13.36

, Hp.Art.30, f.l. in Ar.Eq. 1018 (hex.), ([etym.] ἀνα-) Id.Av. 502(anap.): [dialect] Ion. fem. χασκευσα Herod.4.42 Pap. (also [voice] Med.

χασκόμενοι Cass.Pr. 20

): [tense] pres. [full] χαίνω only in late writers, Phld.Rh.2.189 S., Antig.Mir. 128, AP9.797 (Jul.), 11.242 (Nicarch.), Gal.7.686, Gp.10.30 tit., etc., ([etym.] ἐπι-) Luc.DMort.6.3, ([etym.] περι-) Ael.NA3.20: [tense] fut. χᾰνοῦμαι ([etym.] ἐγ-) Ar.Eq. 1313 (troch.), ([etym.] ἀνα-) Hp.Steril.217, Superf.29, etc.: [tense] aor. 2

ἔχᾰνον Il.4.182

, al., Hp.Art.30, S.Aj. 1227, Ar.V. 342 (lyr.), etc.; [tense] aor. 1

ἔχᾱνα Aesop.223

: [tense] pf.

κέχηνα Il.16.409

, Hp.Coac. 487, etc.; [dialect] Dor. [ per.] 3pl.

κεχάναντι Sophr.25

(Hdn.Gr.2.793 cites κεχήνετε from Ar.Ach. 133, and A.D.Adv.197.31 has κέχαγκα): [tense] plpf.

ἐκεχήνεσαν Ar.Eq. 651

; early [dialect] Att.

κεχήνη Id.Ach.10

.—Used by Hom. only in [tense] aor. 2 χάνοι, χανών, and [tense] pf. part. κεχηνώς:—yawn, gape, τότε μοι χάνοι εὐρεῖα χθών then may earth yawn for me, i.e. to swallow me, Il.4.182, 8.150, cf. 17.417; esp. of opening the mouth wide,

[αἷμα] ἀνὰ στόμα καὶ κατὰ ῥῖνας πρῆσε χανών 16.350

; ἕλκ' ἐκ δίφροιο κεχηνότα ib. 409; ἐάλη τε χανών, of a lion, 20.168; πρὸς κῦμα χανὼν ἀπὸ θυμὸν ὀλέσσαι, of one drowning, Od.12.350: c. acc.,

στόμα χάσκων AP11.418

([place name] Trajan); of a wound, v.l. in S.Fr. 508; of shellfish,

αἵ γα μὰν κόγχαι.. κεχάναντι πᾶσαι Sophr.

l.c.;

ἐπεὰν ὁ κροκόδειλος.. χάνῃ.. πρὸς τὸν ζέφυρον Hdt.2.68

; of a goose,

πλατυγίζοντα καὶ κεχηνότα Eub.115

; of fruit, burst with ripeness, M.Ant.3.2, Gp.l.c.

2 after Hom., gape in eager expectation, χάσκοντες κούφαις ἐλπίσι τερπόμεθα Sol.l.c.: freq. in Com., ὅτε δὴ 'κεχήνη προσδοκῶν τὸν Αἰσχύλον when I was all agape, Ar.Ach.10; λύκος ἔχανεν the wolf opened his mouth (for nothing), prov. of disappointed hopes, Id.Fr. 337, cf. Eub.15.11, Euphro 1.30: with Preps.,

πρὸς ταῦτα κεχηνώς Ar.Nu. 996

(anap.);

πρὸς ἄλλην τινὰ χάσκει Anacr.

l.c., cf. Ar.Eq. 651, 804 (anap.), Porph.Marc.9, etc.; ἔς τι (sc. νόμισμα) Philostr.VA2.7; ἄνω κεχηνώς, of a stargazer, Ar.Nu. 172, cf. Av.51, Pl.R. 529b;

ὧδε χὧδε χ. Herod.4.42

;

κεχηνότες

gaping fools,

Ar.Ra. 990

(lyr.), cf. Eq. 261 (troch.), V. 617 (anap.), and v. Κεχηναῖοι.

3 yawn from weariness, ennui, or inattention, Id.Ach.30;

ὅταν σύ που ἄλλοσε χάσκῃς Id.Eq. 1032

(hex.), cf. Lys. 426; χάσκεις αὐτός; are you yawning? paying no attention? Mnesim.4.22 (anap.).

4 metaph., ἀναπληροῦν τὸ κεχηνὸς τῆς ἑρμηνείας fill the lacuna, A.D. Synt.266.22.

II less freq., speak with open mouth, utter, c. acc.,

σὲ δὴ τὰ δεινὰ ῥήματ'.. καθ' ἡμῶν.. χανεῖν; S.Aj. 1227

;

τοῦτ' ἐτόλμησεν χανεῖν; Ar.V. 342

(lyr.);

ὀϊζυρόν τι χανοῦσα Call.Ap.24

.

III in Paus.6.21.13, if the text be correct, it must be trans., χανεῖν.. τὴν γῆν.. τὸ ἅρμα opened and swallowed the chariot.—Not in A. (exc. in compd. προς-, q.v.) or E.; rare in early Prose, exc. Hp.; once in Hdt. (v. supr. 1.1).

ἀναστομ-όω,

A furnish with a mouth, open up; τάφρον clear out a trench, X.Cyr.7.5.15;

τὰς Νείλου διώρυγας Plb.5.62.4

, cf. S.E.M.5.59;

ταῦτα τῶν ἡδυσμάτων ἀ. τᾀσθητήρια Diph.18.6

:

ἀ. μήτραν Dsc.1.19

:—[voice] Med., φάρυγος ἀναστόμου τὸ χεῖλος open your gullet wide, E. Cyc. 357:—[voice] Pass.,

τραυλὴ μέν ἐστιν, ἀλλ' ἀνεστομωμένη

with mouth wide-opened, loud-talking,

Call.Com.19

; also, to be opened, dilated,

ἀ. οἱ πόροι Arist.HA 581b19

, GA 751a2; ἰχῶρες ἀναστομωθείσης τῆς

σαρκὸς ἐξέρρεον Memn.2

.

2 of one sea opening into another,

κατὰ στενοπόρους αὐχένας ἀνεστομωμένος Arist.Mu. 303a22

;

ὁ Ἀράβιος κόλπος ἀνεστόμωται εἰς τὸν.. Ὠκεανόν D.S.3.38

, cf. Ph.2.475, Hld.1.29.

ἀνοίγ-νῡμι Lys.12.10; [full] ἀνοίγω Pi.P.5.88, Hdt.3.37, 117, and [dialect] Att. as IG1.32 ([etym.] συν-), al.: later [full] ἀνοιγνύω Demetr.Eloc. 122, Paus. 8.41.4: [tense] impf.

A

ἀνἔῳγον Il.16.221

, al., Hdt.1.187, etc.; also

ἀνῷγον Il.14.168

; rarely

ἤνοιγον X.HG1.1.2

and 6.21; [dialect] Ion. and [dialect] Ep.

ἀναοίγεσκον Il.24.455

; late

ἀνεῴγνυον App.BC4.81

, etc.: [tense] fut.

ἀνοίξω Ar. Pax 179

: [tense] aor.

ἀνέῳξα Id.V. 768

, Th.2.2, Hp.Vict.2.56, part. ἀνεῴξας CIG(add.) 4300d ([place name] Antiphellus); also

ἤνοιξα X.HG1.5.13

and in late Prose; [dialect] Ion.

ἄνοιξα Hdt.1.68

(best codd. ἀνῷξα), 4.143, 9.118; poet.

ἀνῷξα Theoc.14.15

,

κἀνῷξε Phld.Acad.Ind.p.103

M.: [tense] pf.

ἀνέῳχα D. 42.30

, Men.229;

ἀνέῳγα Aristaenet.2.22

(v. infr.): [tense] plpf.

ἀνεῴγει Pherecr.86

(Pors.):—[voice] Pass., [full] ἀνοίγνῠμαι E. Ion 923, Ar.Eq. 1326: late [tense] fut.

ἀνοιχθήσομαι LXX Is.60.11

, Epict.Ench.33.13 (v.l.);

ἀνοιγήσομαι LXXNe.7.3

, PMag.Par.1.358;

ἀνεῴξομαι X.HG5.1.14

: [tense] pf.

ἀνέῳγμαι E.Hipp.56

, Th.2.4, etc.;

ἀνῷγμαι Theoc.14.47

; later ἤνοιγμαι ([etym.] δι- ) best reading in Hp.Epid.7.80, cf. J.Ap.2.9; [tense] plpf.

ἀνέῳκτο X.HG5.1.14

([tense] pf. 2 ἀνέῳγα is used in pass. sense in Hp.Morb.4.39, Cord.7, and later Prose, as Plu.2.693d, Ev.Jo.1.51, 2 Ep.Cor.6.11, Luc.Nav. 4 (though he condemns it Sol.8); but in [dialect] Att., only Din.Fr.81): [tense] aor.

ἀνεῴχθην E. Ion 1563

, subj.

ἀνοιχθῆ D.44.37

, opt.

ἀνοιχθείην Pl. Phd. 59d

, part.

ἀνοιχθείς Th.4.130

, Pl.Smp. 216d; later

ἠνοίχθην Paus.2.35.7

, LXXPs.105(106).17; and [tense] aor. 2

ἠνοίγην Ev.Marc.7.35

, Luc.Am.14, etc.—In late Gr., very irreg. forms occur,

ἠνέῳξα LXX Ge.8.6

;

ἠνέωχα PMag.Par.1.2261

;

ἠνέῳγμαι Apoc.10.8

, Hld.9.9;

ἠνεῴχθην LXXGe.7.11

; also [tense] aor. 1 inf.

ἀνωίξαι Q.S.12.331

;

ἀνωίχθην Nonn.D.7.317

:—open, of doors, etc., ἀναοίγεσκον μεγάλην κληῗδα they tried to put back the bolt so as to open [the door], Il.24.455, cf. 14.168;

πύλας ἀνοῖξαι A.Ag. 604

;

θύραν Ar.V. 768

; also without

θύραν, ἐπειδὴ αὐτῷ ἀνέῳξέ τις Pl.Prt. 310b

, cf. 314d; χηλοῦ δ' ἀπὸ πῶμ' ἀνέῳγε took off the cover and opened it, Il.16.221;

φωριαμῶν ἐπιθήματα κάλ' ἀνέῳγεν 24.228

; so ἀ. σορόν, θήκας, Hdt.1.68, 187;

κιβωτόν Lys. 12.10

; ἀ. σήμαντρα, σημεῖα, διαθήκην, open seals, etc., X.Lac.6.4, D. 42.30, Plu.Caes.68; and metaph.,

καθαρὰν ἀνοίξαντι κλῇδα φρενῶν E. Med. 660

; ἀ. βίβλινον (sc. οἶνον) tap it, Theoc.14.15; γῆρυν ἀνοίξας, for στόμα, Tryph.477; ἀ. φιλήματα kiss with open mouths, Ach.Tat.2.37.

b throw open for use,

γυμνάσιον OGI529.11

; κἀνῷξε σχολὰς opened school, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.103M.; εἰ ἀνοίξω ἐργαστήριον; shall I open a shop? Astramps.Orac.43p.5H.

2 metaph., lay open, unfold, disclose,

ὄνομα A.Supp. 322

;

ἔργ' ἀναιδῆ S.OC 515

, cf. E.IA 326;

λανθάνουσαν ἀτυχίαν Men.674

.

3 as nautical term, abs., get into the open sea, get clear of land, X.HG1.1.2, 5.13, 6.21; but

ἁλὸς κέλευθον ἀ. Pi.P.5.88

is to open or first show the way over the sea.

II [voice] Pass., to be open, stand open, lie open,

ὄπισθε τῆς ἀνοιγομένης θύρης Hdt.1.9

;

ἀνεῳγμένην καταλαμβάνειν τὴν θύραν Pl.Smp. 174e

;

ἀνεῳγμένας πύλας Ἅιδου E.Hipp.56

;

δικαστήρια ἀνοίγεται Pl. R. 405a

;

παρέξει τἀμπόρι' ἀνεῳγμένα Ar.Av. 1523

;

ἀνέῳκται τὸ δεσμωτήριον D.24.208

;

λέων τὰ ἐντὸς ἀνοιχθείς

cut open,

Arist.HA 497b17

; κόλποι δι' ἀλλήλων ἀνοιγόμενοι opening one into another, Plu.Crass. 4: metaph.,

θησαυρὸς ὡς ἀνοίγνυται κακῶν E. Ion 923

.

πίστις, εως, ἡ (Hes., Hdt.+; ranging in meaning from subjective confidence to objective basis for confidence).

① that which evokes trust and faith

ⓐ the state of being someone in whom confidence can be placed, faithfulness, reliability, fidelity, commitment (X., An. 1, 6, 3; 3, 3, 4; Aristot., Eth. Eud, 7, 2, 1237b, 12; Polyb. 7, 12, 9; 38, 1, 8 al.; Herodian 2, 14, 4 al.; SIG 675, 22; OGI 557, 16; PTebt 27, 6; 51 [II B.C.]; POxy 494, 9; 705, 32; other pap M-M. s.v.; Ps 32:4; Pr 12:22; Jos., Ant. 2, 61; TestAsh 7:7) w. κρίσις and ἔλεος Mt 23:23. (Opp. ἀπιστία as Hes., Op. 370) τὴν πίστιν τοῦ θεοῦ καταργεῖν nullify the faithfulness/commitment of God (cp. Ps 32:4; Hos 2:22) Ro 3:3. πᾶσαν π. ἐνδείκνυσθαι ἀγαθήν show all good faith(fulness) Tit 2:10 (cp. BGU 314, 19 μετὰ πίστεως ἀγαθῆς). W. other virtues Gal 5:22 (on πίστις, πραΰτης cp. Sir 45:4; 1:27). W. ὑπομονή 2 Th 1:4. τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα I have remained faithful or loyal (πίστιν τηρεῖν as Polyb. 6, 56, 13; 10, 37, 5; Jos., Bell. 2, 121; 6, 345; OGI 339, 46f; IBM III, 587b, 5f [Dssm., LO 262=LAE 309, esp. note 3]) 2 Ti 4:7, though this would be classified by some under 3 below. S. also 1c below.

ⓑ a solemn promise to be faithful and loyal, assurance, oath, troth (X., Cyr. 7, 1, 44; 8, 8, 3, Hell. 1, 3, 12; Diod S 14, 9, 7; Appian, Bell. Civ. 4, 86 §362 μεγάλας πίστεις ἔδωκεν=solemn assurances; 3 Macc 3:10; Jos., Ant. 12, 382) τὴν πρώτην πίστιν ἠθέτησαν 1 Ti 5:12 (s. also ἀθετέω 1 and cp. CIA app. [Wünsch, Praef. p. xv] of a woman who πρώτη ἠθέτησεν τὴν πίστιν to her husband). Cp. Rv 2:3.

ⓒ a token offered as a guarantee of someth. promised, proof, pledge (Pla., Phd. 70b; Isocr. 3, 8; Aristot., Rhet. 1, 1; 3, 13; Epicurus in Diog. L. 10, 63; 85: πίστις βεβαία=dependable proof; Polyb. 3, 100, 3; Περὶ ὕψους 39, 3=p. 74, 20 V.; Epict. 1, 28, 3; Appian, Bell. Civ. 4, 119 §500; Jos., Ant. 15, 69) πίστιν παρασχὼν πᾶσιν ἀναστήσας αὐτόν (God has appointed a man [Jesus] to be judge of the world, and) he has furnished proof (of his fitness for this office) to all people by raising him (on πίστιν παρέχειν cp. Jos., Ant. 2, 218 πίστιν παρεῖχε; 15, 260; Polyb. 2, 52, 4 πίστιν παρέσχετο=gave a pledge, security; Vett. Val. 277, 29f) Ac 17:31. JBarton, Biblica 40, ’59, 878–84: π. in 2 Ti 4:7= bond deposited by an athlete. But see 3 below.—WSchmitz, ῾Η Πίστις in den Papyri, diss. Cologne, ’64.

② state of believing on the basis of the reliability of the one trusted, trust, confidence, faith in the active sense=‘believing’, in ref. to deity (Soph. Oed. R. 1445 νῦν γʼ ἂν τῷ θεῷ πίστιν φέροις; Pla., Leg. 12, 966de; Plut. Mor. 402e; 756b; Dio Chrys. 3, 51 παρὰ θεῶν τιμὴ κ. πίστις; Ael. Aristid. 13 p. 226 D.: πίστιν ἐν τ. θεοῖς ἔχειν; Appian, Liby. 57 §248 ἐς θεοὺς πίστις; Ep. 33 of Apollonius of Tyana [Philostrat. I 352, 14]; Herm. Wr. 9, 10 ἐπίστευσε καὶ ἐν τῇ καλῇ πίστει ἐπανεπαύσατο; Porphyr., Ad Marcellam 21 τῆς βεβαίας πίστεως, τὸ μεμαθηκέναι, ὅτι ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ προνοεῖται πάντα. The divinity Πίστις in Plut., Num. 70 [16, 1] and in magic [exx. in Rtzst., Mysterienrel.³ 234f, among them Aberciusins. 12; PGM 4, 1014 ἀλήθεια καὶ πίστις; 12, 228]; Wsd 3:14; 4 Macc 15:24; 16:22; 17:2; Philo, Abr. 270; 271; 273, Mut. Nom. 182, Migr. Abr. 43f, Conf. Lingu. 31, Poster. Cai. 13 [on faith in Philo s. the lit. given under πιστεύω 2aα]; Jos, C. Ap. 2, 163; 169; Just., A I, 52, 1 πίστιν ἔχειν; 53, 11 πειθὼ καὶ πίστιν … ἐμφορῆσαι), in our lit. directed toward God and Christ, their revelations, teachings, promises, their power and readiness to aid.

ⓐ God: πίστις θεοῦ (cp. Jos., Ant. 17, 179.—Cp. π. καὶ φόβος ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ Theoph. Ant. 1, 7 [p. 72, 26]) faith, trust, confidence in God Mk 11:22; cp. Ac 19:20 D; 1 Cl 3:4; 27:3. π. θείου πνεύμαπος faith in the divine spirit Hm 11:9. ἡ π. τοῦ κυρίου Hs 6, 3, 6. π. (καὶ ἐλπὶς) εἰς θεόν 1 Pt 1:21. π. ἐπὶ θεόν Hb 6:1. ἡ πίστις ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν 1 Th 1:8 (on the constr. w. πρὸς τ. θ. cp. Philo, Abr. 268; 271; 273; Just., D. 121, 2 διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον π.).—πίστις can also be characterized as faith in God by the context, without the addition of specific words; so in connection w. OT personalities: Abraham Ro 4:5, 9, 11–13, 16, 19f (s. also 2dα below); 1 Cl 10:7; 31:2; of Rahab 12:1, 8; of Esther 55:6 (ἡ τελεία κατὰ πίστιν). The OT heroes of faith Hb 11:4–33, 39 (w. this catalogue of heroes cp. Il. 4, 457–538; 2 Km 23:8–39; 1 Ch 11:10–12:18; CGordon, Homer, and the Bible: HUCA 26, ’55, 83).—But in Hb it is also true that God is specifically the object of the Christian’s faith, and Christ 12:2 is ὁ τῆς πίστεως ἀρχηγὸς καὶ τελειώτης. Cp. 10:38; 11:3; 13:7. (On faith in Hb s. Schlatter, Der Glaube im NT⁴ 1927, 520ff; BHeigl, Verfasser u. Adresse des Hb 1905, 109–18; GHoennicke, Die sittl. Anschauungen des Hb: ZWT 45, 1902, 26ff; Windisch, Hdb. exc. on Hb 11; Riggenbach and Michel on Hb 11; Strathmann on 10:38. S. ὑπόστασις end.)—ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν Mt 17:20. Opp. doubt 21:21. αἰτεῖν ἐν πίστει μηδὲν διακρινόμενος Js 1:6. ἡ εὐχὴ τῆς πίστεως 5:15 (εὐχή 1). ἡ πίστις τῆς ἐνεργείας τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἐγείραντος αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead Col 2:12.

ⓑ Christ

α. of belief and trust in the Lord’s help in physical and spiritual distress; oft. in the synopt. gospels: Mt 8:10; 9:2, 22, 29 (κατὰ τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν); 15:28; Mk 2:5; 4:40; 5:34; 10:52; Lk 5:20; 7:9, 50; 8:25, 48; 17:19; 18:42.—Cp. ἔχει πίστιν τοῦ σωθῆναι (the lame man) had faith that he would be cured Ac 14:9.

β. of faith in Christ, designated by the addition of certain words. By the obj. gen. (s. Just., D. 52, 4 διὰ τῆς πίστεως τῆς τοῦ χριστοῦ) πίστις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ faith in Jesus Christ (and sim. exprs. On interp. as obj. gen. s. AHultgren, NovT 22, ’80, 248–63 [lit.]; response SWilliams, CBQ 49, ’87, 431–47.) Ro 3:22, 26; Gal 2:16ab, 20; 3:22; Eph 3:12; Phil 3:9a; Js 2:1; Rv 14:12; cp. 2:13 (ἡ πίστις μου=faith in me, the Human One [Son of Man]); IMg 1:1. (The πίστις Χριστοῦ in Paul is taken as a subj. gen. by JHaussleiter, Der Glaube Jesu Christi 1891, Was versteht Paulus unter christlichem Glauben?: Greifswalder Studien für HCremer 1895, 161–82 and GKittel, StKr 79, 1906, 419ff. See also Schläger, ZNW 7, 1906, 356–58; BLongenecker, NTS 39, ’93, 478–80 [lit. since ’81]; DCampbell, JBL 113, ’94, 265–85; response BDodd, 114, ’95, 470–73.—ADeissmann, Paulus² 1925, 125f [Paul, tr. WWilson, 1926, 162ff], speaks of the mystical gen., ‘faith in Christ’. Likew. HWeber, Die Formel ‘in Christo Jesu’: NKZ 31, 1920, 213ff, esp. 231, 3; WWeber, Christusmystik 1924, 82. S. also LAlbrecht, Der Glaube Jesu Christi 1921; OSchmitz, Die Christusgemeinschaft des Pls im Lichte seines Genetivgebr. 1924, 91–134; OHoltzmann, D. Glaube an Jes.: Stromata 1930, 11–25; GTaylor, JBL 85, ’66, 58–76: the passages in Gal=Christ’s reliability as a trustee. Cp. GHoward, HTR 60, ’67, 459–65; MHooker, NTS 35, ’89, 321–42.)—By prepositional phrases: πίστις εἰς Χριστόν (and sim. exprs.) faith in Christ Ac 20:21; 24:24; 26:18; Col 2:5 (Just., D. 40, 1).—Also πίστις ἐν Χριστῷ (and sim.) Gal 3:26; Eph 1:15; Col 1:4; 1 Ti 3:13; 2 Ti 3:15; 1 Cl 22:1. In ἱλαστήριον διὰ πίστεως ἐν τῷ αὐτοῦ αἵματι Ro 3:25, ἐν κτλ. prob. goes not w. πίστις, but w. ἱλαστήριον (s. Ltzm., Hdb. ad loc.; W-S. §20, 5d).—πίστις, ἣν ἔχεις πρὸς τ. κύριον Ἰησοῦν Phlm 5.—πίστις διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰ. Χριστοῦ Ac 20:21 D; sim. ἡ πίστις ἡ διʼ αὐτοῦ 3:16b (cp. 1 Pt 1:21).—Jesus Christ is called ἡ τελεία πίστις ISm 10:2.

ⓒ πίστις can also be characterized by an objective gen. of the thing: ἡ πίστις τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ faith in his (Jesus’) name Ac 3:16a. ἡ πίστις τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Phil 1:27. εὐαγγελίων πίστις Dg 11:6. πίστις ἀληθείας 2 Th 2:13.

ⓓ πίστις is found mostly without an obj., faith, firm commitment

α. as true piety, genuine devotion (Sextus 7a and 7; ParJer 6:7), which for our lit. means being a Christian (τὸ ἀληθινὸν πάσχα … πίστει νονούμενον Hippol., Ref. 8, 18, 1; Did., Gen. 54, 11) Lk 18:8 (s. Jülicher, Gleichn. 288); 22:32; Ac 6:5=vs. 8 v.l.; cp. 11:24.—6:7; 13:8; 14:22; 15:9; 16:5; Ro 1:5, 8, 12, 17ab (ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν does not mean a gradation [as, in a way, Appian, Mithrid. 40 §154: Sulla came upon ἕτερον ὅμοιον ἐξ ἑτέρου=one wall, i.e. fortification, after another similar one] or a transition from one kind to another [Himerius, Or.=Ecl. 10, 6 ἐκ ᾠδῆς εἰς ᾠδὴν ἄλλην μετέβαλον=they changed from one kind of song to another], but merely expresses in a rhetorical way that πίστις is the beginning and the end; s. Ltzm., Hdb. ad loc., and a grave-ins [ANock, Sallust. p. xxxiii, 94] ἐκ γῆς εἰς γῆν ὁ βίος οὗτοσ=‘dust is the beginning and the end of human life’.—AFridrichsen, ConNeot 12, ’48, 54); 17c (here and in Gal 3:11 the LXX of Hab 2:4 [DCampbell, JBL 116, ’97, 713–19] is not followed literally, since it has ἐκ πίστεώς μου=‘as a result of my faithfulness’; even in Hb 10:38, where μου does occur, it goes w. δίκαιος, not w. πίστεως); Ro 3:27f (Luther’s addition of the word ‘alone’ in vs. 28 is hard to contest linguistically. Cp., e.g., Diog. L. 9, 6: Heraclitus wrote his work in very obscure language ὅπως οἱ δυνάμενοι προσίοιεν αὐτῷ=in order that only the capable might approach it. S. also Fitzmyer, ABComm. 360–64), 30f; 4:5–20 (s. also 2a above); 5:1f; 9:30, 32; 10:6, 17; 11:20 (opp. ἀπιστία); 12:3, 6 (s. ἀναλογία; for a difft. view 3 below); 14:1, 22 (s. ἐνώπιον 2b; others would place in 2dε), 23ab (but s. ε below); 16:26; 1 Cor 2:5; 15:14, 17; 16:13; 2 Cor 1:24ab; 4:13; 10:15; 13:5; Gal 3:7–26; 5:5, 6 (s. ἐνεργέω 1b); 6:10 (οἱ οἰκεῖοι τῆς πίστεως, s. οἰκεῖος b); Eph 2:8; 3:17; 4:5, 13; 6:16; Phil 1:25 (χαρὰ τῆς πίστεως); 2:17; 3:9b; Col 1:23; 2:7; 1 Th 3:2, 5, 7, 10; 2 Th 1:3, 11; 3:2; 1 Ti 1:2, 4, 5 (π. ἀνυπόκριτος), 19ab; 4:1; 5:8; 6:10, 12, 21 (but s. 3 below); 2 Ti 1:5 (ἀνυπόκριτος π.); 2:18; 3:8; Tit 1:1, 4, 13; 3:15; Phlm 6 (s. κοινωνία 4); Hb 6:12; 10:22, 39 (opp. ὑποστολή); Js 1:3; 2:5; 1 Pt 1:5, 7, 9; 5:9; 2 Pt 1:1; 1J 5:4; 1 Cl 1:2 (ἡ πανάρετος κ. βεβαία π.); ISm 1:1 (ἀκίνητος π.); Hm 5, 2, 1; 12, 5, 4 (both πλήρης ἐν τῇ πίστει full of faith); 5, 2, 3 (π. ὁλόκληρος); 9:6 (ὁλοτελὴς ἐν τ. π.), 7 (opp. διψυχία), 12 (π. ἡ ἔχουσα δύναμιν); 12, 6, 1; Hs 9, 19, 2 (ἀπὸ τῆς π. κενοί); 9, 26, 8 (κολοβοὶ ἀπὸ τῆς π. αὐτῶν).—τὸ ῥῆμα τ. πίστεως Ro 10:8. οἱ λόγοι τῆς π. 1 Ti 4:6. τὸ μυστήριον τῆς π. 3:9. ὁ θεὸς ἤνοιξεν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν θύραν πίστεως God has opened the door of faith to the Gentiles, i.e. opened the way for them to participate in a new relationship w. God Ac 14:27 (s. also θύρα 1bγ). ἀκοὴ πίστεως Gal 3:2, 5 (s. ἀκοή 2 and 4b). (τὸ) ἔργον (τῆς) π. 1 Th 1:3; 2 Th 1:11 (s. ἔργον 1b). οἱ ἐκ πίστεως the people of faith (s. ἐκ 3b) Gal 3:7, 9. πῶς οὐν [πίστιν εὑρ]ίσκομεν; Ox 1081, 25f (but here [ταῦτα γιγν]ώ̣σκομεν is the preferable restoration w. Till after the Coptic SJCh 90, 2); 32. Of gnostics τοῦ ὄφεως πίστιν ἔχουσιν AcPlCor 2:20.—If the principal component of Christianity is faith, then π. can be understood as the Gospel in terms of the commitment it evokes (cp. SIG 932, 7 [II/I B.C.]) νῦν εὐαγγελίζεται τὴν πίστιν ἥν ποτε ἐπόρθει Gal 1:23 (s. 3 below). Perh. also Ro 1:5.

β. Hb 11:1 defines πίστις as ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις, πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων. There is here no qu. about the mng. of π. as confidence or assurance (s. 2a above), but on its relation to ὑπόστασις as its predication s. under that word.—(Ps.-Aristot., De Mundo 6, 18 interprets πιστεύειν in someth. as incapability to see someth. that is apparent only to God.) Paul contrasts walking διὰ εἴδους (εἶδος 3) as the lower degree, with διὰ πίστεως περιπατεῖν 2 Cor 5:7 (s. KDeissner, Pls. u. die Mystik seiner Zeit² 1921, 101ff). On the other hand πίστις is on a higher level than merely listening to Christian preaching Hb 4:2.

γ. πίστις abs., as a Christian virtue, is often coupled w. others of the same kind, esp. oft. w. ἀγάπη: 1 Th 3:6; 5:8; 1 Ti 1:14; 2 Ti 1:13; Phlm 5; B 11:8; IEph 1:1; 9:1; 14:1; 20:1; IMg 1:2; 13:1; IRo ins; ISm ins; 6:1; 13:2; AcPl Ha 8, 35. W. ἀγάπη and other abstracts 2 Cor 8:7; Gal 5:22; Eph 6:23; 1 Ti 2:15; 4:12; 6:11: 2 Ti 2:22; 3:10; Tit 2:2; Rv 2:19; IPhld 11:2; Pol 4:2; Hm 8:9; cp. v 3, 8, 2–5. The triad πίστις, ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη 1 Cor 13:13; cp. also Col 1:4f; 1 Th 1:3; 5:8; B 1:4 (on this triad see s.v. ἀγάπη 1aα). W. ἐλπίς only (cp. 1 Pt 1:21) 1 Cl 58:2. The ζωῆς ἐλπίς is called ἀρχὴ καὶ τέλος πίστεως ἡμῶν B 1:6.—W. ἀλήθεια (TestLevi 8:2) 1 Ti 2:7 (cp. the combination POxy 70, 4f [III A.D.]); 1 Cl 60:4. W. δικαιοσύνη Pol 9:2. W. ὑπομονή Rv 13:10; w. ὑπομ. and other abstracts 2 Pt 1:5f; Pol 13:2 (cp. also the following passages already referred to in this section: 1 Ti 6:11; 2 Ti 3:10; Tit 2:2 and Js 1:3 [α above]). W. γνῶσις (Just., D. 69, 1) et al. 2 Pt 1:5f [s. above]; D 10:2. ἵνα μετὰ τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν τελείαν ἔχητε τὴν γνῶσιν B 1:5. W. φόβος and ἐγκράτεια Hm 6, 1, 1.—(Distinguished from θεία σοφία: Orig., C. Cels. 6, 13, 23.)

δ. faith as fidelity to Christian teaching. This point of view calls for ἔργα as well as the kind of πίστις that represents only one side of true piety: Js 2:14ab, 17, 18abc, 20, 22ab, 24, 26 (ἔργον 1a); Hv 3, 6, 5; Hs 8, 9, 1ab.

ε. Ro 14:22 and 23 π. as freedom or strength in faith, conviction (s. Ltzm., Hdb. ad loc.; but s. α above).

ζ. In addition to the πίστις that every Christian possesses (s. 2dα above) Paul speaks of a special gift of faith that belongs to a select few 1 Cor 12:9. Here he understands π. as an unquestioning belief in God’s power to aid people with miracles, the faith that ‘moves mountains’ 13:2 (cp. Mt 17:20.—21:21; s. 2a above). This special kind of faith may be what the disciples had in mind when they asked πρόσθες ἡμῖν πίστιν Lk 17:5; cp. vs. 6. τῇ πίστει φερόμενος ὁ Παυλος AcPl Ha 5, 1.

③ that which is believed, body of faith/belief/teaching (Diod S 1, 23, 8 ἰσχυρὰν πίστιν καὶ ἀμετάθετον=an article of faith that was firm and unshakable [concerning Orpheus and Dionysus]; Mel., HE 4, 26, 13; Ath. 8, 1; Iren., 1, 10, 2 [Harv. I, 92, 1]; Orig., C. Cels., 1, 42, 26; Did., Gen. 156, 23). So clearly Jd 3 (τῇ ἅπαξ παραδοθείσῃ τοῖς ἁγίοις πίστει), 20 (τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ ὑμῶν πίστει.—ἅγιος 1aα). πίστις θεοῦ=that which, acc. to God’s will, is to be believed IEph 16:2.—This objectivizing of the term πίστις is found as early as Paul: Ro 1:5; Gal 1:23 (s. 2dα end) and perh. Gal 3:23–25 (s. Ltzm., Hdb. ad loc.). ASeeberg, D. Katechismus der Urchristenheit 1903, 110f, understands 1 Ti 1:19; 4:1, 6; 6:10, cp. 21; 2 Ti 2:18 in this manner. Ro 12:6 (but s. ἀναλογία) and 2 Ti 4:7 are also interpreted in this way by many.—EBurton, ICC Gal 1921, 475–86; ASchlatter, D. Glaube im NT⁴ 1927; APott, Das Hoffen im NT in seiner Beziehung zum Glauben1915; ANairne, The Faith of the NT 1920; RGyllenberg, Pistis 1922; WKümmel, D. Glaube im NT: ThBl 16, ’38, 209–21; Dodd 65–68; TTorrance, ET 68, ’57, 111–14; CMoule, ibid. 157.—Synoptics: TShearer, ET 69, ’57, 3–6.—Esp. for Paul: BBartmann, Pls, die Grundzüge seiner Lehre u. die moderne Religionsgeschichte 1914; WMorgan, The Religion and Theology of Paul 1917; WHatch, The Pauline Idea of Faith in Its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic Religion 1917; Ltzm., Hdb. exc. after Ro 4:25; FKnoke, Der christl. Glaube nach Pls 1922; ERohde, Gottesglaube u. Kyriosglaube bei Pls: ZNW 22, 1923, 43–57; EWissmann, Das Verh. v. πίστις und Christusfrömmigkeit bei Pls 1926; MDibelius, Glaube u. Mystik b. Pls: Neue Jahrb. f. Wissensch. u. Jugendbildg. 7, ’31, 683–99; WMundle, D. Glaubensbegriff des Pls ’32 (p. xi–xvi extensive bibliog.); RGyllenberg, Glaube b. Pls: ZWT 13, ’37, 612–30; MHansen, Om Trosbegrebet hos Pls ’37; LMarshall, Challenge of NT Ethics, ’47, 270–77; 298–300; RBultmann, Theologie des NT ’48, 310–26 (Engl. tr. KGrobel I ’51, 314–30; for the Johannines II, 70–92, ’55); MMassinger, BiblSacra 107, ’50, 181–94 et al. S. also δικαιοσύνη 3a.—For the Fourth Gosp.: JBuswell, The Ethics of ‘Believe’ in the Fourth Gospel: BiblSacra 80, 1923, 28–37; JHuby, De la connaissance de foi chez S. Jean: RSR 21, ’31, 385–421; RSchnackenburg, D. Glaube im 4. Ev., diss. Breslau ’37; WHatch, The Idea of Faith in Christ. Lit. fr. the Death of St. Paul to the Close of the Second Century 1926.—EGraesser, D. Glaube im Hebräerbrief, ’65.—ABaumeister, D. Ethik des Pastor Hermae, 1912, 61–140.—ESeidl, π. in d. griech. Lit. (to Peripatetics), diss. Innsbruck, ’53; HLjungman, Pistis, ’64; DLührmann, Pistis im Judent., ZNW 64, ’73, 19–38. On faith in late Judaism s. Bousset, Rel.³ 534a (index); also DHay, JBL 108, ’89, 4611–76; DLindsay, Josephus and Faith ’93. On the Hellenistic concept πίστις Rtzst., Mysterienrel.³ 234–36.—DELG s.v. πείθομαι. M-M. EDNT. TW. Spicq. Sv.

στόμα, ατος, τό (Hom.+; loanw. in rabb.).

① mouth

ⓐ of humans or of beings whose appearance resembles that of humans: Mt 15:11a, 17; J 19:29; Ac 11:8; 23:2; 2 Th 2:8 (cp. Is 11:4; Ps 32:6); Rv 11:5.—Used in imagery Rv 1:16; 2:16; 3:16; 10:9f (cp. Ezk 3:1ff); 19:15, 21.—As an organ of speech Mt 15:11b, 18 (cp. Num 32:24); 21:16 (Ps 8:3); Lk 4:22; 11:54; Ro 10:8 (Dt 30:14); Eph 4:29; Js 3:10 (cp. Aesop, Fab. 35 P.=64 H./60 Ch./35 H-H.: ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ στόματος τὸ θερμὸν καὶ τὸ ψυχρὸν ἐξιεῖς=out of the same mouth you send forth warm and cold [of the person who blows in his hands to warm them, and on his food to cool it off]); 1 Cl 15:3 (Ps 61:5), 4 (Ps 77:36); 2 Cl 9:10; B 11:8; Hm 3:1. ἀπόθεσθε αἰσχρολογίαν ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ὑμῶν put away shameful speech from your mouth = don’t let any dirty talk cross your lips Col 3:8. ἀκούειν τι ἐκ τοῦ στόματός τινος Ac 22:14; 2 Cl 13:3; B 16:10 (cp. ParJer 6:24); ἀκ. ἀπὸ τοῦ στ. τινος (Polyaenus 8, 36 ἀπὸ στόματος τῆς ἀδελφῆς) Lk 22:71; ἀκ. τι διὰ τοῦ στ. τινος Ac 1:4 D; 15:7.—ἀνεῴχθη τὸ στ. αὐτοῦ (of a mute person) his mouth was opened (Wsd 10:21) Lk 1:64, words could now come out, as REB renders: ‘his lips and tongue were freed’. ἀνοίγειν τὸ στόμα τινός open someone’s mouth for him and cause him to speak 1 Cl 18:15 (cp. Ps 50:17). ἀνοίγειν τὸ (ἑαυτοῦ) στόμα open one’s (own) mouth to speak (ApcMos 21; ApcrEzk; s. ἀνοίγω 5a) Mt 5:2; 13:35 (Ps 77:2); Ac 8:35; 10:34; 18:14; GEb 34:60. οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στ. αὐτοῦ=he is silent Ac 8:32; 1 Cl 16:7 (both Is 53:7; cp. Mel., P. 64; 462). For ἄνοιξις τοῦ στόματος Eph 6:19 s. ἄνοιξις. On στόμα πρὸς στόμα λαλεῖν speak face to face 2J 12; 3J 14 s. πρός 3aε. On ἵνα πᾶν στ. φραγῇ Ro 3:19 s. φράσσω.—There is no δόλος or ψεῦδος in the mouth of the upright Rv 14:5; 1 Cl 50:6 (Ps 31:2); esp. of God’s ‘Servant’ (Is 53:9) 1 Pt 2:22; 1 Cl 16:10; Pol 8:1.—στόμα stands for the person in the capacity of speaker (3 Km 17:24; 22:22; 2 Ch 36:21f): ἐκ τοῦ περισσεύματος τῆς καρδίας τὸ στόμα λαλεῖ Mt 12:34 (καρδία … στ. as TestNapht 2:6). διὰ στόματός τινος (ApcMos 16f; B-D-F §140) by (the lips of) someone Lk 1:70; Ac 1:16; 3:18, 21.—ἐν ἑνὶ στόματι with one voice (ἓν στόμα Aristoph., Equ. 670; Pla., Rep. 364a, Laws 1, 634e; Ael. Aristid. 51, 40 K.=I p. 544 D.; PGiss 36, 12 [161 B.C.] αἱ τέτταρες λέγουσαι ἐξ ἑνὸς στόματος; Pla., Rep. 364a) Ro 15:6; cp. 1 Cl 34:7.—For Mt 18:16; 2 Cor 13:1; Lk 19:22; Lk 21:15 s. 2.

ⓑ of God (Dexippus of Athens [III A.D.]: 100 Fgm. 1, 7 Jac. ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ μαρτυρία διὰ στόματος; Theognis18; ParJer 6:12) Mt 4:4 (Dt 8:3); 1 Cl 8:4 (Is 1:20).

ⓒ of animals and animal-like beings, mouth, jaws, of a fish (PGM 5, 280ff) Mt 17:27. Of horses Js 3:3; cp. Rv 9:17–9; a weasel B 10:8; lion (Judg 14:8) Hb 11:33; Rv 13:2; in imagery 2 Ti 4:17; an apocalyptic monster (Diod S 3, 70, 4 the Aegis: ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ἐκβάλλον φλόγα) Rv 12:15, 16b; 16:13abc; Hv 4, 1, 6; 4, 2, 4 (cp. Da 6:22 Theod.; JosAs 12:10).

② the product of the organ of speech, utterance, mouth. By metonymy for what the mouth utters ἐπὶ στόματος δύο μαρτύρων (Dt 19:15) Mt 18:16; 2 Cor 13:1. ἐκ τοῦ στόματός σου κρινῶ σε Lk 19:22. ἐγὼ δώσω ὑμῖν στόμα καὶ σοφίαν I will give you eloquence and wisdom Lk 21:15. S. also 1a.

③ a geological fissure, mouth in imagery of the earth in which a fissure is opened (s. Gen 4:11) ἤνοιξεν ἡ γῆ τὸ στόμα αὐτῆς Rv 12:16a.

④ the foremost part of someth., edge fig. ext. of 1. The sword, like the jaws of a wild animal, devours people; hence acc. to OT usage (but s. Philostrat., Her. 19, 4 στ. τῆς αἰχμῆς; Quint. Smyrn. 1, 194; 813 and s. μάχαιρα 1; cp. στ.=‘point’ of a sword Hom. et al.; στόμα πολέμου Polemo Soph. B8 Reader p. 134) στόμα μαχαίρης the edge of the sword = the voracious sword (Josh 19:48; Sir 28:18; s. also μάχαιρα 1, end) Lk 21:24; Hb 11:34.—B. 228; esp. 860. DELG. M-M. TW.

ἀνοίγω (ἀνά, οἴγω ‘open’; Hom. +) on this by-form of ἀνοίγνυμι see Kühner-Bl. II 496f; W-S. §12, 7 and §15 (p. 130); B-D-F §101; Rob. 1212f; Mayser 404. Fut. ἀνοίξω; 1 aor. ἀνέῳξα J 9:14 (vv.ll. ἠνέῳξα, ἤνοιξα), ἠνέῳξα vs. 17 (vv.ll. ἤνοιξα, ἀνέῳξα), mostly ἤνοιξα Ac 5:19; 9:40 al.; 2 pf. (intr.) ἀνέῳγα; pf. pass. ἀνέῳγμαι 2 Cor 2:12 (v.l. ἠνέῳγμαι), ptc. ἀνεῳγμένος (ἠνεῳγμένος 3 Km 8:52; ἠνοιγμένος Is 42:20), inf. ἀνεῴχθαι (Just., D. 123, 2). Pass.: 1 aor. ἠνεῴχθην Mt 3:16; v.l. 9:30; Jn 9:10; Ac 16:26 (vv.ll. ἀνεῴχθην, ἠνοίχθην); inf. ἀνεῳχθῆναι Lk 3:21 (ἀνοιχθῆναι D); 1 fut. ἀνοιχθήσομαι Lk 11:9f v.l.; 2 aor. ἠνοίγην Mk 7:35 (vv.ll. ἠνοίχθησαν, διηνοίγησαν, διηνοίχθησαν); Ac 12:10 (v.l. ἠνοίχθη); Hv 1, 1, 4 (Dssm. NB 17 [BS 189]); 2 fut. ἀνοιγήσομαι Mt 7:7; Lk 11:9f (v.l. ἀνοίγεται). The same circumstance prevails in LXX: Helbing 78f; 83ff; 95f; 102f. Thackeray 202ff.

① to move someth. from a shut or closed position, trans. a door (Menand., Epitr. 643 Kö.; Polyb. 16, 25, 7; OGI 222, 36; 332, 28, SIG 798, 19; 1 Km 3:15; PsSol 8:17; GrBar 11:5f; Jos., Ant. 13, 92 ἀ. τ. πύλας, Vi. 246; Just., D. 36, 5 τὰς πύλας τῶν οὐρανῶν) τὰς θύρας (really the wings of a double door) Ac 5:19; 12:10 (w. act. force, see 6 below); 16:26f (s. OWeinreich, Türöffnung im Wunder-, Prodigien-u. Zauberglauben d. Antike, d. Judentums u. Christentums: WSchmid Festschr. 1929, 200–452). ἀ. τὸν πυλῶνα open the outer door of the house Ac 12:14. τ. θύραν τ. ναοῦ fig., of the mouth of the believer, who is the temple of God B 16:9 (with this figure cp. Philosoph. Max. 488, 6 τοῦ σοφοῦ στόματος ἀνοιχθέντος, καθάπερ ἱεροῦ, τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς καλὰ βλέπεται ὥσπερ ἀγάλματα=when the mouth of the wise man opens like the door of a temple, the beauties of his soul are as visible as statues [of deities]). Without door as obj. acc., or as subject of a verb in the pass., easily supplied from the context (Achilles Tat. 2, 26, 1) Mt 7:7f; Lk 11:9f; Mt 25:11; Lk 13:25; GJs 12:2.—Used fig. in var. ways (PTebt 383, 29 [46 A.D.]; Epict. Schenkl index θύρα: ἡ θύρα ἤνοικται=I am free to go anywhere) Rv 3:20, cp. 3:7f (s. Is 22:22; Job 12:14). πύλη δικαιοσύνης 1 Cl 48:2, cp. 4. Of preaching that wins attention ἤνοιξεν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν θύραν πίστεως God gave the gentiles an opportunity to become believers Ac 14:27. Cp. θύρας μοι ἀνεῳγμένης since a door was opened for me, i.e. I was given an opportunity to work 2 Cor 2:12 (for 1 Cor 16:9 s. 6 below). Likew. ἀ. θύραν τοῦ λόγου Col 4:3.

② to render someth. readily accessible, open, trans., closed places, whose interior is thereby made accessible: a sanctuary 1 Cl 43:5; pass. Rv 11:19; 15:5 heaven (Kaibel 882 [III A.D.] οὐρανὸν ἀνθρώποις εἶδον ἀνοιγόμενον; PGM 4, 1180; 36, 298; Is 64:1; Ezk 1:1; cp. 3 Macc 6:18) Mt 3:16; Lk 3:21; Ac 10:11; Rv 19:11; GEb 18, 36; Hv 1, 1, 4; the nether world Rv 9:2; graves (SIG 1237, 3 ἀνοῖξαι τόδε τὸ μνῆμα; Ezk 37:12, 13) Mt 27:52. Fig., of the throat of the impious τάφος ἀνεῳγμένος ὁ λάρυγξ αὐτῶν their gullet is an open grave (breathing out putrefaction?) Ro 3:13 (Ps 5:10; 13:3).

③ to disclose contents by opening, open, trans., τ. θησαυροὺς (SIG² 587, 302 τῷ τ. θησαυροὺς ἀνοίξαντι; 601, 32; 653, 93; Eur., Ion 923; Arrian, Cyneg. 34, 2 ἀνοίγνυται ὁ θησαυρός; Is 45:3; Sir 43:14; Philo, Leg. All. 3, 105; Ath. 1, 1) treasure chests Mt 2:11. κεράμιον οἴνου ἢ ἐλαίου open a jar of wine or oil D 13:6. ἀ. βιβλίον open a book in scroll form (Diod S 14, 55, 1 βιβλίον ἐπεσφραγισμένον … ἀνοίγειν; 2 Esdr 18:5; Da 7:10) Lk 4:17 v.l.; Rv 5:2ff; 10:2, 8 (cp. 2 Esdr 16:5; TestAbr A 12 p. 91, 22 [Stone p. 30]); 20:12.

④ to remove an obstruction, open, trans., a seal (X., De Rep. Lac. 6, 4; SIG 1157, 47 [I A.D.] τὰς σφραγῖδας ἀνοιξάτω) Rv 5:9; 6:1–12; 8:1.

⑤ to cause to function, open, trans., of bodily parts

ⓐ mouth ἀ. τὸ στόμα open the mouth of another person 1 Cl 18:15 (cp. Ps 50:17); of a fish, to take something out Mt 17:27; of a mute (Wsd 10:21) Lk 1:64.— Open one’s own mouth to speak (oft. in OT; SibOr 3, 497, but e.g. also Aristoph., Av. 1719) Mt 5:2; 6:8 D; Ac 8:35; 10:34; 18:14; GEb 34, 60. More specif. ἐν παραβολαῖς=he spoke in parables Mt 13:35 (Ps 77:2; cp. Lucian, Philops. 33 ὁ Μέμνων αὐτὸς ἀνοίξας τὸ στόμα ἐν ἔπεσιν ἑπτά). εἰς βλασφημίας (opened its mouth) to blaspheme Rv 13:6.— Not to open one’s mouth, remain silent Ac 8:32; 1 Cl 16:7 (both Is 53:7, as also Mel., P. 64, 462).—Fig., of the earth when it opens to swallow something ἤνοιξεν ἡ γῆ τὸ στόμα αὐτῆς Rv 12:16 (cp. Num 16:30; 26:10; Dt 11:6).

ⓑ eyes ἀ. τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς of a blind person (Is 35:5; 42:7; Tob 11:7; Mel., P. 78, 565) Mt 9:30; 20:33; J 9:10, 14, 17, 21, 26, 30, 32; 10:21; B 14:7 (Is 42:7).—One’s own eyes, to see (Epict. 2, 23, 9 and 12; PGM 4, 624) Ac 9:8, 40.—Fig., of spiritual sight Lk 24:31 v.l.; Ac 26:18. τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τ. καρδίας 1 Cl 36:2; 59:3 (cp. Just., D. 123, 2 προσηλύτων … ἀνεῷχθαι τὰ ὄμματα).

ⓒ ears (Epict. 2, 23, 10; PGM 7, 329) of a deaf man Mk 7:35.

ⓓ heart, fig. ἀ. τ. καρδίαν πρὸς τ. κύριον open one’s heart to the Lord Hv 4, 2, 4.

⑥ to be in a state of openness, be open, intr. (only 2 pf., except that the 2 aor. pass. ἠνοίγη Ac 12:10 [s. 1 above] is the practical equivalent of an intr. Other exx. of 2 pf.: Hippocr., Morb. 4, 39 ed. Littré; VII 558; Plut., Mor. 693d, Coriol. 231 [37, 2]; Lucian, Nav. 4; Polyaenus 2, 28, 1) in our lit. in contexts connoting opportunity θύρα μοι ἀνέῳγεν 1 Cor 16:9 (s. 1 above; Lucian, Soloec. 8 ἡ θύρα ἀνέῳγέ σοι τῆς γνωρίσεως αὐτῶν. Cp. Just., D. 7, 3 φωτὸς ἀνοιχθήναι πύλας).—Cp. τ. οὐρανὸν ἀνεῳγότα J 1:51.

⑦ to be candid, be open, intr. (s. 6 beg. for grammatical ref.; s. also 5a) τὸ στόμα ἡμῶν ἀνέῳγεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς our mouth is open toward you, i.e. I have spoken freely and openly 2 Cor 6:11 (cp. Ezk 16:63; 29:21 and ἄνοιξις).—B. 847. DELG s.v. οἴγνυμι. M-M.

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