Mark 7:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. Ephphatha - Ethphathach, Syriac. It is likely that it was in this language that our Lord spoke to this poor man: and because he had pronounced the word Ephphathach with peculiar and authoritative emphasis, the evangelist thought proper to retain the original word; though the last letter in it could not be expressed by any letter in the Greek alphabet.