Definition

a huge fish (as gaping for prey)

Etymology

probably from the base of G5490 (χάσμα);

Word family

• χάσμα chásma

How the KJV renders it

• whale

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.