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ephphatha

This is the Greek form of a Syro-Chaldaic or Aramaic word, meaning “be opened.”

This was uttered by Christ when healing the man who was deaf and dumb (Mark 7:34).

It is one of the characteristics of the Apostle Mark that he uses the very Aramaic words which fell from our Lord’s lips.

(See Mark 3:17; 5:41; 7:11; 14:36; 15:34.)