To end
אָפֵסStrong’s H0656aphes (a-phes)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aphes is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has come to an end”, “come to an end” and “has it come to an end”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to cease, break, come to an end
How it's translated
- it has come to an end 2
- he will come to an end 2
- has it come to an end 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Isaiah 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 47:16And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
- Psalms 77:8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- Isaiah 16:4Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
- Isaiah 29:20For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Hebrew dictionary
אָפֵס aphes · to end
(Qal) to cease, break, come to an end
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “end” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
END, noun
- The extreme point of a line, or of anything that has more length than breadth; as the end of a house; the end of a table; the end of a finger; the end of a chain or rope.
- The extremity or last part, in general; the close or conclusion, applied to time.
- The conclusion or cessation of an action.“Of the increase of his government there shall be no end” Isaiah 9:7
- The close or conclusion; as the end of a chapter.
All definitions and other forms of “end”
- Ultimate state or condition; final doom.“Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace” Psalms 37:37
- The point beyond which no progression can be made.“They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end” Psalms 107:27
- Final determination; conclusion of debate or deliberation.
- Close of life; death; decease.
- Cessation; period; close of a particular state of things; as the end of the world.
- Limit; termination.
- Destruction. Amos 8:2“The end of all flesh is come” Genesis 6:13
- Cause of death; a destroyer.
- Consequence; issue; result; conclusive event; conclusion.
- A fragment or broken piece.
- The ultimate point or thing at which one aims or directs his views; the object intended to be reached or accomplished by any action or scheme; purpose intended; scope; aim; drift; as private ends; public ends.
- An end for on end upright; erect; as, his hair stands an end
- The ends of the earth, in scripture, are the remotest parts of the earth, or the inhabitants of those parts.
END, verb transitive
To finish; to close; to conclude; to terminate; as, to end a controversy; to end a war.
- “On the seventh day God ended his work” Genesis 2:2
- To destroy; to put to death.
END, verb intransitive
To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; as, a voyage ends by the return of a ship.
- To terminate; to close; to conclude.
- To cease; to come to a close.
END'-ALL, noun
Final close. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.