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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. i.) To open the mouth wide

2. (v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.

3. (v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

4. (v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.

5. (v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.

6. (n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.

7. (n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.

Greek
5490. chasma -- a chasm, wide space
... gulf. From a form of an obsolete primary chao (to "gape" or "yawn"); a "chasm" or
vacancy (impassable interval) -- gulf. (chasma) -- 1 Occurrence. 5489, 5490 ...
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Strong's Hebrew
6473. paar -- to open wide (the mouth)
... gape, open wide. A primitive root; to yawn, ie Open wide (literally or figuratively) --
gape, open (wide). 6472, 6473. paar. 6474 . Strong's Numbers.
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6475. patsah -- to part, open
... deliver, gape, open, rid, utter. A primitive root; to rend, ie Open (especially
the mouth) -- deliver, gape, open, rid, utter. 6474, 6475. patsah. 6476 . ...
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3445. yeshach -- perhaps emptiness
... casting down. From an unused root meaning to gape (as the empty stomach); hunger --
casting down. 3444, 3445. yeshach. 3446 . Strong's Numbers.
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6362. patar -- to separate, remove, set free
... A primitive root; to cleave or burst through, ie (causatively) to emit, whether
literal or figurative (gape) -- dismiss, free, let (shoot) out, slip away. ...
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7779. shuph -- to bruise
... break, bruise, cover. A primitive root; properly, to gape, ie Snap at; figuratively,
to overwhelm -- break, bruise, cover. 7778, 7779. shuph. 7780 . ...
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Library

Texts Explained; Twelfthly, Matthew xxvi. 39; John xii. 27, &C. ...
... Nor is it lawful to say that the Lord was in terror, at whom the keepers of hell's
gates shuddered [3187] and set open hell, and the graves did gape, and many ...
/.../chapter xxix texts explained twelfthly matthew.htm

V. ...
... and be afraid of no one; and let every one be in heart what he is in appearance,
and not act a feigned part, whereby he shall make others gape with wonder. ...
/.../the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/chapter ii v .htm

Death.
... will be a sore amazement to him, for "fears shall be in the way," yea, terrors will
take hold on him when he shall see the yawning jaws of death gape upon him ...
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Against Excessive Fondness for Jewels and Gold Ornaments.
... But these women, who comprehend not the symbolism of Scripture, gape all they can
for jewels, adducing the astounding apology, "Why may I not use what God hath ...
/.../the instructor paedagogus/chapter xiiiagainst excessive fondness for.htm

On Eating.
... snipes, and the Median peafowl. Altering these by means of condiments,
the gluttons gape for the sauces. "Whatever earth and the ...
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Behaviour in the Baths.
... The dirt of wealth, then, has an abundant covering of censure. With this, as with
a bait, they hook the miserable creatures that gape at the glitter of gold. ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter v behaviour in the baths.htm

Ridicule of the Statues Erected by the Greeks.
... What care I to know that Euanth?? gave birth to an infant in the Peripatus, or to
gape with wonder at the art of Callistratus, or to fix my gaze on the Ne??ra ...
/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter xxxiv ridicule of the statues.htm

But we are not Here Concerned with the Nature and Existence of the ...
... necessity. They, above all, are so bored with the past and with the present,
that they gape, with a horrible hunger, for the future. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 10 but we are.htm

A New Kind of King
... The course of events seems to have been that 'the common people of the Jews' came
streaming out to Bethany on the Sunday to gape and gaze at the risen man and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/a new kind of king.htm

Of Divers Unseemly Practices that Follow them that Lack the Work ...
... curious customs in bodily bearing, that when they shall ought hear, they writhe
their heads on one side quaintly, and up with the chin: they gape with their ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the three and 4.htm

Thesaurus
Gape (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To open the mouth wide. 2. (vi) Expressing a desire for food; as, young
birds gape. ... Multi-Version Concordance Gape (2 Occurrences). ...
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Gap (4 Occurrences)

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Gaped (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Gape. Multi-Version Concordance Gaped
(2 Occurrences). Job 16:10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. ...
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Gulf (3 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. GULF. (chasma, "a chasm," "vent," "a gaping
opening"-a great interval; from chaino, "to gape" or "yawn"): Occurs only in Luke ...
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Check (9 Occurrences)
... 17. (vi) To act as a curb or restraint. 18. (vi) To crack or gape open, as wood
in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc. 19. ...
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Cormorant (4 Occurrences)
... tints, touched with white on the cheeks and sides as a festal dress at mating season,
and adorned with filamentary feathers on the head, and bright yellow gape...
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Cheeks (8 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV). Job 16:10 They gape upon me with their mouth;
they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me. ...
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Mouth (534 Occurrences)
... Corinthians 6:11 Ephesians 6:19). "To gape upon one with the mouth" means to
threaten a person (Job 16:10). Divine rebuke is expressed by ...
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Range (9 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Job 16:10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks
reproachfully; they range themselves together against me. (DBY). ...
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Resources
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Concordance
Gape (2 Occurrences)

Job 16:10
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY WBS)

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Gaping (2 Occurrences)

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