Chasm
χάσμαStrong’s G5490chasma
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Chasma is the Greek word usually translated “chasm”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.”
Meaning
Usually translated “chasm”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- a chasm 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
χάσμα chasma · chasm
χάσμα, -τος, τό (χάσκω, to yawn), [in LXX: 2Ki.18:17 (פַּחַת)* ;] a chasm, wide space: Luk.16:26.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chasm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHASM, noun
- A cleft; a fissure; a gap; properly, an opening made by disrupture, as a beach in the earth or a rock.
- A void space; a vacuity.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.