Chásma — G5490

Definition

neuter noun

a "chasm" or vacancy (impassable interval)

Usually translated as

gulf

Origin

from a form of an obsolete primary cháō (to "gape" or "yawn")

Occurrences

Chásma occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (1)

• Luke 16:26 — And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf (χάσμα) fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.