Word Summary
pharanx: a chasm, ravine
Original Word: φάραγξTransliteration: pharanx
Phonetic Spelling: (far'-anx)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a chasm, ravine
Meaning: a chasm, ravine
Strong's Concordance
valley.
Properly, strengthened from the base of peran or rather of rhegnumi; a gap or chasm, i.e. Ravine (winter-torrent) -- valley.
see GREEK rhegnumi
see GREEK peran
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5327: φάραγξφάραγξ,
φάραγγος,
ἡ, a valley shut in by cliffs and precipices;
a ravine:
Luke 3:5. (
Alcman,
Euripides,
Thucydides,
Demosthenes,
Polybius, others; the
Sept..)