To cease
סוּףStrong’s H5486suph
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Suph is the Hebrew word usually translated “bring to an end”, “it will cease” and “come to an end”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.”
Meaning
- To cease, come to an end(Qal) to come to an end · (Hiphil) to make an end
How it's translated
- i will bring to an end 3
- it will cease 1
- they come to an end 1
- they will come to an end 1
- i will make an end of them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zephaniah 2
- Esther 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Isaiah 66:17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 8:13I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
- Zephaniah 1:2I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
- Zephaniah 1:3I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
סוּף suph · to cease
1) to cease, come to an end 1a) (Qal) to come to an end 1b) (Hiphil) to make an end Aramaic equivalent: suph (סוּף "be fulfilled" H5487)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cease” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CEASE, verb intransitive
- To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.“It is an honor for a man to cease from strife” Proverbs 20:3
- To fail; to be wanting.“The poor shall never cease out of the land” Deuteronomy 15:11
- To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
- To be forgotten.“I would make the remembrance of them to cease” Deuteronomy 32:26
All definitions and other forms of “cease”
- To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8
CEASE, verb transitive
To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ]
CEASE, noun
Extinction.
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.