ἀνοίγω
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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
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).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 verses where G455 appears in the Perfect tense in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts
- Acts 9:8 ἠνοιγμένων perf pass ptcp gen pl masc Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
- Acts 10:11 ἀνεῳγμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg masc He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
- Acts 16:27 ἀνεῳγμένας perf pass ptcp acc pl fem The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
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.
ανοιγω — transliterated anoígō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to open.” It first appears in Matthew 2:11. With 75 verses in 10 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (33% of all occurrences). From the same root come ανα, αναβαινω and αναβαλλομαι. See the sense tree, 75-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G455 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 →
- 75
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 75 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #220
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 220 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 75 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 25 verses 33%
- Acts 16 verses 21%
- Matthew 11 verses 15%
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 75 distinct verses.
- Johannine 36 verses · 48%
- Gospels 29 verses · 39%
- Revelation 25 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 22 verses · 29%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 7%
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: Open 15×, Opened 13×, He had opened 7×
- American Standard Version: Opened 17×, Open 13×, He opened 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Opened 16×, Open 13×, Was opened 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Opened 17×, Open 14×, He opened 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G455 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 11 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 G455 across 76 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 G455 across 75 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G455 across 81 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
From G303 and οἴγω oigō (to open ); to open up (literally or figuratively in various applications): - open.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 36 distinct written forms G455 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G455, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 78 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανοιγω appears 165 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 153 verses in 27 books.
- 165
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 153
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:5 ἀναοἴγω
- Exodus 2:6 ἀναοἴγω
- Numbers 3:12 ἀναοἴγω
- Deuteronomy 11:6 ἀναοἴγω
- Joshua 8:17 ἀναοἴγω
- Judges 3:25 ἀναοἴγω
- 1 Samuel 3:15 ἀναοἴγω
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἀναοἴγω
- 2 Kings 4:35 ἀναοἴγω
- 1 Chronicles 9:27 ἀναοἴγω
- 2 Chronicles 6:20 ἀναοἴγω
- Ezra 11:6 ἀναοἴγω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G455) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 153. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:5 ἀναοἴγω for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:7 ἀναοἴγω Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 7:11 ἀναοἴγω In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
- Genesis 8:6 ἀναοἴγω It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
- Genesis 21:19 ἀναοἴγω God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
- Genesis 29:31 ἀναοἴγω Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- Genesis 30:22 ἀναοἴγω God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- Genesis 41:56 ἀναοἴγω The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 43:21 ἀναοἴγω and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand.
- Genesis 44:11 ἀναοἴγω Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
- Exodus 2:6 ἀναοἴγω She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
- Exodus 4:12 ἀναοἴγω Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
- Exodus 4:15 ἀναοἴγω You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- Exodus 13:2 ἀναοἴγω "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine."
- Exodus 13:12 ἀναοἴγω that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be Yahweh's.
- Exodus 13:13 ἀναοἴγω Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
- Exodus 13:15 ἀναοἴγω and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
- Exodus 21:33 ἀναοἴγω "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
- Exodus 34:19 ἀναοἴγω All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
- Numbers 3:12 ἀναοἴγω "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
- Numbers 8:16 ἀναοἴγω For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
- Numbers 16:30 ἀναοἴγω But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- Numbers 16:32 ἀναοἴγω and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
- Numbers 18:15 ἀναοἴγω Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.
- Numbers 19:15 ἀναοἴγω Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
- Numbers 22:28 ἀναοἴγω Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
- Numbers 26:10 ἀναοἴγω and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Deuteronomy 11:6 ἀναοἴγω and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
- Deuteronomy 15:8 ἀναοἴγω but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
- Deuteronomy 15:11 ἀναοἴγω For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
- Deuteronomy 20:11 ἀναοἴγω It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 ἀναοἴγω Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.
- Joshua 8:17 ἀναοἴγω There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
- Joshua 10:22 ἀναοἴγω Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me out of the cave.
- Judges 3:25 ἀναοἴγω They waited until they were ashamed; and, behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
- Judges 4:19 ἀναοἴγω He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
- Judges 11:35 ἀναοἴγω It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back.
- Judges 11:36 ἀναοἴγω She said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.
- Judges 19:27 ἀναοἴγω Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
- 1 Samuel 3:15 ἀναοἴγω Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἀναοἴγω So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 7:21 ἀναοἴγω He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name of it Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name of it Boaz.
- 1 Kings 8:29 ἀναοἴγω that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
- 1 Kings 8:52 ἀναοἴγω that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
- 2 Kings 4:35 ἀναοἴγω Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
- 2 Kings 6:17 ἀναοἴγω Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
- 2 Kings 6:20 ἀναοἴγω It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
- 2 Kings 9:3 ἀναοἴγω Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and don't wait.
- 2 Kings 9:10 ἀναοἴγω The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled.
- 2 Kings 13:17 ἀναοἴγω He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G455) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
