End
סוֹףStrong’s H5490soph
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Soph is the Hebrew word usually translated “end of”, “at end of” and “end”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.”
Meaning
- End, conclusion
How it's translated
- end of 2
- at end of 1
- end 1
- and end its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 3
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Joel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
- Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
- Ecclesiastes 12:13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
- Joel 2:20But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Hebrew dictionary
סוֹף soph · end
end, conclusion Aramaic equivalent: soph (סוֹף "end" H5491)
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.