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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ephphatha
Aramaic for be opened, which Jesus says while healing a deaf man near the Decapolis. Mark keeps several of these words untranslated.
Aramaic for be opened, which Jesus says while healing a deaf man near the Decapolis. Mark keeps several of these words untranslated.
Not a person but an Aramaic word meaning "be opened," spoken by Jesus when he healed a deaf man with a speech impediment near the Decapolis (Mark 7:34). Mark is noted for preserving several of Jesus's actual Aramaic words in transliterated form, including talitha cumi (Mark 5:41) and his cry from the cross, eloi eloi lama sabachthani (Mark 15:34), details that reflect the eyewitness texture of his gospel.
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- Mark 7:34
