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.
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.
/hebrew/6473.htm - 6k 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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