Lexical Summary
chasma: Chasm, gulf, gap
Original Word: χάσμα
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: chasma
Pronunciation: KHAHS-mah
Phonetic Spelling: (khas'-mah)
KJV: gulf
NASB: chasm
Word Origin: [from a form of an obsolete primary chao "to gape or yawn"]
1. a "chasm" or vacancy (impassable interval)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
gulf.
From a form of an obsolete primary chao (to "gape" or "yawn"); a "chasm" or vacancy (impassable interval) -- gulf.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom chaskó (to yawn)
Definitiona chasm, wide space
NASB Translationchasm (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5490: χάσμαχάσμα,
χασματος,
τό (
χαίνω to yawn),
a gaping opening, a chasm, gulf: equivalent to a great interval,
Luke 16:26. (
Hesiod theog. 740;
Euripides,
Plato,
Plutarch,
Lucian,
Aelian, others.)
