Editing Language of Jesus (section)

===<span id="Ephphatha">Ephphatha (Ἐφφαθά)</span>===
{{see also|Healing the deaf mute of Decapolis}}
[[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] {{bibleverse-nb||Mark|7:34|KJV}}
: ''And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," which is 'be opened'.''

Once again, the Aramaic word is given with the transliteration, only this time, the word to be transliterated is more complicated. In Greek, the Aramaic is written ἐφφαθά. This could be from the Aramaic ''ethpthaḥ'', the passive imperative of the verb ''pthaḥ'', 'to open', since the ''th'' could assimilate in western Aramaic. The pharyngeal ''[[heth|ḥ]]'' was often omitted in Greek transcriptions in the [[Septuagint]] (Greek Old Testament) and was also softened in Galilean speech.<ref>Kutscher, E.Y.. (1976). Studies in Galilean Aramaic.</ref>

In Aramaic, it could be אתפתח or אפתח. This word was adopted as the official motto of [[Gallaudet University]], the [[United States]]' most prominent school for the [[hearing loss|deaf]].