Quick Definition
a valley, ravine
Strong's Definition
a gap or chasm, i.e. ravine (winter-torrent)
Derivation: properly, strengthened from the base of G4008 (πέραν) or rather of G4486 (ῥήγνυμι);
KJV Usage: valley
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φάραγξ, φάραγγος, ἡ, a valley shut in by cliffs and precipices; a ravine: Luk_3:5. (Alcman, Euripides, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Polybius, others; the Sept..)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φάραγξ pharanx 1x
a cleft, ravine, valley, Luk_3:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
φάραγξ , -αγγος , ἡ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5158 , also for H1516 , etc.;]
a chasm, ravine: Luk_3:5 ( LXX ) ( v. DB , iv, 845 f .).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φάραγξ [page 664]
ravine (Luk. 3:5 LXX). Preisigke ( Wort. s.v. ) identifies this word with the φάλαγξ of BGU I. 282 .18 (after A.D. 175) according to the better reading φάλαγξ for Φάλαγξ ( see ib. p. 358) : cf. l. .27 . The verb φαραγγόω is found in P Tebt I. 151 (a survey-list late ii/B.C.) wilh reference to land ploughed up in furrows ἀρούρης πεφαραγγωμένης .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
φάραγξ φά^ραγξ, αγγος, "a cleft or chasm" in a mountain, "a ravine, gully", Aesch. , Eur. [Etym: deriv. uncertain]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
φάραγξ, -αγγος, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for נַחַל, also for גַּיְא, etc. ;]
a chasm, ravine: Luk.3:5 (LXX) (see DB, iv, 845 f.).†
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