διανοίγω
to open
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1272 appears — 8 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark 1 verse
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 2:23 διανοῖγον pres act ptcp nom sg neut (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),
- Luke 24:31 διηνοίχθησαν aor pass ind 3pl Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
- Luke 24:32 διήνοιγεν impf act ind 3sg They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
- Luke 24:45 διήνοιξεν aor act ind 3sg Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 7:56 διηνοιγμένους perf pass ptcp acc pl masc and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
- Acts 16:14 διήνοιξεν aor act ind 3sg A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
- Acts 17:3 διανοίγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
διανοιγω — transliterated dianoígō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to open.” Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (50% of all occurrences). With 8 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Mark 7:34. From the same root come δια, διαβαινω and διαβαλλω. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1272 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 88%
- Gospels 5 verses · 63%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Were opened 2×
- American Standard Version: Were opened 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Opened 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He opened 2×, Opened 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1272 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1272 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1272 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1272 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to open by dividing or drawing asunder, to open thoroughly (what had been closed)
Word origin
Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G1272 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διήνοιξεν diḗnoixen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 24:45 | 2 |
| διήνοιγεν diḗnoigen | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 24:32 | 1 |
| διανοίγων dianoígōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 17:3 | 1 |
| διανοίχθητι dianoíchthēti | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Mark 7:34 | 1 |
| διανοῖγον dianoîgon | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 2:23 | 1 |
| διηνοίχθησαν diēnoíchthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 24:31 | 1 |
| διηνοιγμένους diēnoigménous | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 7:56 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1272, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- διαβαινω diabaínō G1224 to pass through
- διαβαλλω diabállō G1225 to slander
- διαβεβαιοομαι diabebaióomai G1226 to affirm strongly
- διαβλεπω diablépō G1227 to look through
- διαγγελλω diangéllō G1229 to proclaim
- διαγινομαι diagínomai G1230 to continue
- διαγινωσκω diaginṓskō G1231 to ascertain
- διαγογγυζω diagongýzō G1234 to murmur
- διαγρηγορεω diagrēgoréō G1235 to watch through
- διαγω diágō G1236 to lead through
- διαδεχομαι diadéchomai G1237 to receive in succession
- διαδημα diádēma G1238 diadem
- διαδιδωμι diadídōmi G1239 to distribute
- διαζωννυμι diazṓnnymi G1241 to gird around
- διαιρεω diairéō G1244 to divide
- διακαθαριζω diakatharízō G1245 to cleanse thoroughly
- διακατελεγχομαι diakatelénchomai G1246 to confute
- διακουομαι diakoúomai G1251 to hear fully
- διακρινω diakrínō G1252 to distinguish
- διακωλυω diakōlýō G1254 to hinder
- διαλαλεω dialaléō G1255 to converse
- διαλεγομαι dialégomai G1256 to discuss
- διαλειπω dialeípō G1257 to intermit
- διαλλασσω diallássō G1259 to reconcile
+62 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 88 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
