Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently. 2. (v. i.) To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire. 3. (v. t.) To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc. 4. (n.) The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

Multi-Version Concordance Gasp (5 Occurrences) Job 3:11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! (YLT) Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit." (See NIV) Job 13:19 Who 'is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp. (YLT) Isaiah 42:14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 14:6 And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. (See JPS)