Boundary
קָ֫צוּStrong’s H7099qetsev (qe-tsev)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qetsev is the Hebrew word usually translated “ends of” and “boundaries of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.”
Meaning
- End, border, boundary
How it's translated
- ends of 2
- boundaries of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 65:5By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
- Isaiah 26:15Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Hebrew dictionary
קָ֫צוּ qetsev · boundary
end, border, boundary
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “boundary” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOUND'ARY, noun
A limit; a bound. This word is thus used as synonymous with bound. But the real sense is, a visible mark designating a limit. Bound is the limit itself or furthest point of extension, and may be an imaginary line; but boundary is the thing which ascertains the limit; terminus, not finis. Thus by a statute of Connecticut, it is enacted that the inhabitants of every town shall procure its bounds to be set out by such marks and boundaries as may be a plain direction for the future; which marks and boundaries shall be a great heap of stones or a ditch of six feet long, etc. This distinction is observed also in the statute of Massachusetts. But the two words are, in ordinary use, confounded.
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.