ΧΑΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ, χασκοντες
CHASKONTES, chaskontes
Sounds Like: KHAS-kon-tes
Translations: gaping, opening the mouth, being agape
From the root: ΧΑΣΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'gaping' or 'opening the mouth wide'. It describes someone who is looking with an open mouth, often in astonishment, wonder, or even idiocy. It conveys the idea of being wide open, as in a chasm or a wide-open mouth.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G5490 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Ezra (Alpha) — 4:19
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΑΣΚΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΧΑΝΕΝ — opened, gaped, swallowed up
- ΚΕΧΗΝΑΝ — they have gaped, they have opened wide, they have stood agape
- ΠΡΟΣΚΕΧΗΝΑΜΕΝ — we have gaped, we have opened our mouths, we have stood agape, we have been amazed
- ΧΑΣΚΩ — to gape, to open wide, to be open-mouthed, to be astonished, to be amazed
- ΧΑΣΚΩΝ — gaping, opening the mouth, being open-mouthed, being agape
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