What Does John 9:10 Mean in the King James?
Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The change in sight is visible before anyone understands how the opening happened.
THE MEANING
The people can see that his eyes are open, yet they still ask how it happened. A changed capacity is present before its cause is clear. The verse meets you wherever a real change is easier to recognize than to explain.
THE ROOT
ἠνεῴχθησαν
ēneōchthēsan
GROWS FROM
ἀνοίγω
anoigō
To open, to open up.
The verb appears in the passive: his eyes “were opened,” foregrounding a change he receives. This opening family also describes eyes coming to sight and perception opening to recognition, a connection the English word “opened” leaves mostly hidden.
ALSO GROWS
dianoigō: To open through or fully; also to open understanding.
διανοίγω
Luke 24:31 uses this expanded form when the travelers’ eyes are opened, sharing the same opening root.
ánoigma: An opening or aperture.
ἄνοιγμα
This related noun names the opening itself, keeping attention on the newly available passage of sight.
THE PATTERN
An opening changes what can be perceived, whether eyes receive sight or a heart receives a message.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.THE THREAD
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.John’s question centers on how bodily sight opened; Luke uses an expanded form of the same Greek opening verb when eyes open into recognition. The shared root lets the physical opening in John resonate with perception becoming recognizable in Luke.
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