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G`APE,
1. To open the mouth wide, from sleepiness, drowsiness or dullness to yawn.
2. To open the mouth for food, as young birds.
3. To gape for or after, to desire earnestly to crave to look and long for as, men often gape after court favor.
The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes.
To gape at, in a like sense, is hardly correct.
4. To open in fissures or crevices as a gaping rock.
May that ground gape, and swallow me alive.
5. To have a hiatus as one vowel gaping on another.
6. To open the mouth in wonder or surprise as the gaping fool the gaping crowd.
7. To utter sound with open throat.
8. To open the mouth with hope or expectation.
9. To open the mouth with a desire to injure or devour.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth. Job 16
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Gape'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/gape.html.
Entry for 'Gape'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/gape.html.
