noun · neuter
chasmem
Strong’sG5490
a gap, gulf, chasm
stem chasm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χάσμα, -τος, τό
(< χάσκω, to yawn), [in LXX: II Ki 18:17 (פַּחַת)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5490 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhas'-mah
a "chasm" or vacancy (impassable interval)
Fromfrom a form of an obsolete primary χάω (to "gape" or "yawn");
King Jamesgulf.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(χαίνω) yawning chasm, gulf, χ. μέγα, of Tartarus, Refs 8th c.BC+; χθονός, πέτρας, Refs 5th c.BC+
II open, gaping mouth, χ. θηρός Refs 5th c.BC+; as forming a helmet, Refs; of a yawning gulf, χάρυβδις.. ἄρμα περιβαλοῦσα χάσματι Refs 6th c.AD+; χ. φάρυγος, of a lion,Refs 7th c.BC+
III generally, any wide opening, θυρέτρων χ. ἀχανές Refs 4th c.BC+; also, expanse, of the sky and sea, χ. πελάγεος τὸ δὴ Αἰγαῖον καλέεται Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | chasmem1×χάσμα | chasmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | chasmeu | chasmeiu |
| to, for dative | chasme | chasmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chasme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
chasmem“chasm”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Luke 16:26… pantei houtei metaxu nu kai vu chasmem megem stērizotē, hopōs tois thelarōntois diabainara …And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and …