akin to chasko, "to yawn" (Eng., "chasm"), is found in Luke 16:26 . In the Sept., 2 Samuel 18:17 , two words are used with reference to Absalom's body, bothunos which signifies "a great pit," and chasma, "a yawning abyss, or precipice," with a deep pit at the bottom, into which the body was cast.