'Opened' in the Bible

“In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

Because the famine had spread across the whole country, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his money there at the top of the bag.

When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one’s money was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our money, and we have brought it back with us.

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions.

Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and she asked Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the path with a drawn sword in His hand. Balaam knelt and bowed with his face to the ground.

and he proclaimed his poem:The oracle of Balaam son of Beor,the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened,

Then he proclaimed his poem:The oracle of Balaam son of Beor,the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened;

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

The servants waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor!

He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.

When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went out to leave on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, collapsed near the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,

Elisha got up, went into the house, and paced back and forth. Then he went up and bent down over him again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

Then Elisha prayed, “Lord, please open his eyes and let him see.” So the Lord opened the servant’s eyes. He looked and saw that the mountain was covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

When they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “Lord, open these men’s eyes and let them see.” So the Lord opened their eyes. They looked and discovered they were in Samaria.

The dogs will eat Jezebel in the plot of land at Jezreel—no one will bury her.’” Then the young prophet opened the door and escaped.

Elisha said, “Open the east window.” So he opened it. Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. Then Elisha said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, yes, the arrow of victory over Aram. You are to strike down the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

Ezra opened the book in full view of all the people, since he was elevated above everyone. As he opened it, all the people stood up.

When shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem just before the Sabbath, I gave orders that the gates be closed and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my men at the gates, so that no goods could enter during the Sabbath day.

They waited for me as for the rainand opened their mouths as for spring showers.

No stranger had to spend the night on the street,for I opened my door to the traveler.

You opened up springs and streams;You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

He gave a command to the clouds aboveand opened the doors of heaven.

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;it flowed like a stream in the desert.

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;it covered the assembly of Abiram.

I opened to my love,but my love had turned and gone away.I was crushed that he had left.I sought him, but did not find him.I called him, but he did not answer.

Let’s go early to the vineyards;let’s see if the vine has budded,if the blossom has opened,if the pomegranates are in bloom.There I will give you my love.

My hand has reached out, as if into a nest,to seize the wealth of the nations.Like one gathering abandoned eggs,I gathered the whole earth.No wing fluttered;no beak opened or chirped.

Whoever flees at the sound of panicwill fall into a pit,and whoever escapes from the pitwill be caught in a trap.For the windows are opened from heaven,and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

The Lord God has opened My ear,and I was not rebellious;I did not turn back.

The Lord opened His armoryand brought out His weapons of wrath,because it is a task of the Lord God of Hostsin the land of the Chaldeans.

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was among the exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

On that day your mouth will be opened to talk with him; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign for them, and they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Now the hand of the Lord had been on me the evening before the fugitive arrived, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.

There was a chamber whose door opened into the portico of the gate. The burnt offering was to be washed there.

The side rooms opened into the free space, one entrance toward the north and another to the south. The area of free space was 8¾ feet wide all around.

The Lord said to me: “This gate will remain closed. It will not be opened, and no one will enter through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it. Therefore it will remain closed.

“This is what the Lord God says: The gate of the inner court that faces east must be closed during the six days of work, but it will be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the New Moon.

“When the prince makes a freewill offering, whether a burnt offering or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate that faces east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or fellowship offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he will go out, and the gate must be closed after he leaves.

When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

A river of fire was flowing,coming out from His presence.Thousands upon thousands served Him;ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him.The court was convened,and the books were opened.

Suddenly one with human likeness touched my lips. I opened my mouth and said to the one standing in front of me, “My lord, because of the vision, anguish overwhelms me and I am powerless.

The river gates are opened,and the palace erodes away.

“On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.

Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary His mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

After Jesus was baptized, He went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on Him.

“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus warned them sternly, “Be sure that no one finds out!”

The tombs were also opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”).

Immediately his ears were opened, his speech difficulty was removed, and he began to speak clearly.

Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God.

When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As He was praying, heaven opened,

“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him, but He disappeared from their sight.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Then He said, “I assure you: You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Therefore they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”“He’s a prophet,” he said.

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out, and said,

“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing in front of the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

“Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down, prayed, and turning toward the body said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.

He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

After they passed the first and second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and immediately the angel left him.

Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was spoken by Paul.

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose.

because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me—yet many oppose me.

When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, the Lord opened a door for me.

We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide.

When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”

When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and there was a black horse. The horseman on it had a set of scales in his hand.

When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.

When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

He opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great furnace so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.

and he had a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land,