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ἄνοιξις

ánoixis · G457 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to address, to start speaking, to begin to speak, to utter

    (Semitic idiom, literally: opening of the mouth) To begin to speak in a somewhat formal and systematic manner

    Examples

    Ephesians 6:19 and pray in my behalf, that speech may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
פָּתַח pâthach · H6605 · to open, to open up
פָּתַח (pâthach, H6605) is the Hebrew root verb meaning 'to open' from which ἄνοιξις (ánoixis, G457), a Greek nominal form meaning 'opening', derives its semantic correspondence in LXX translation contexts, representing the abstract noun form of the opening action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To address, to start speaking, to begin to speak, to utter33.29
In Ephesians 6:19, Paul asks for prayer “that speech may be given to me in the opening (anoíxei) of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,” describing the moment his own speaking begins.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀνοίγω anoígō · G455 · to open, to make open, to regain one’s hearing · 78×διανοίγω dianoígō · G1272 · to open, to make open, to explain · 8×ἄνοιξιςánoixis · G457
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνοιξεως, ἡ (ἀνοίγω, which see), an opening: ἐν ἀνοίξει τοῦ στόματος μου as often as I…
ἀνοιξεως, ἡ (ἀνοίγω, which see), an opening: ἐν ἀνοίξει τοῦ στόματος μου as often as I open my month to speak, Eph 6:19. (Thucydides 4, 68, 4; τῶν πυλών, id. 4, 67, 3; χειλων, Plutarch, mor. (symp. 1. ix. quaest. 2, 3), p. 788 c.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Language Levels1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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