Word

סוּף

çûwph · H5487 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to bring to an end

Causative action or process by which one condition causes another condition to come to an end

Examples
Daniel 2:44 “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.
to be fulfilled, to be carried out

Process by which an event that was announced earlier is made reality

Examples
Daniel 4:33 “Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִלָּהcommandment 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מַלְכוּkingdom, reign 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 2 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against+ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּרNebuchadnezzar 1
בin/on/with+ הָher 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 2 words

כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end: כָּלָה (kālâ) is a distinct Hebrew verb that shares both core meanings with סוּף: consuming/destroying and completing/fulfilling. Both can express bringing something to its end, whether through consumption or completion.
תָּמַם tâmam · H8552 · to be finished, to be spent, to be completed: תָּמַם (tāmam) means to come to an end, be complete, or be consumed, paralleling both the completion and consumption senses of סוּף. Both express the idea of something reaching its termination or fulfillment.

In the other Testament 3 words

τελέω teléō · G5055 · to complete, to finish, to end: τελέω (teleō) is the standard Greek verb for completing or fulfilling something, directly corresponding to the 'fulfill' sense of Hebrew סוּף (sûp). Both words express bringing something to completion or its intended end.
συντελέω synteléō · G4931 · to complete, to finish, to end: συντελέω (synteleō) carries the sense of bringing to complete fulfillment or consuming/completing entirely, matching both the 'fulfill' and 'consume' nuances of סוּף. The compound form intensifies the completion aspect.
ἀναλίσκω analískō · G355 · to destroy: ἀναλίσκω (analiskō) specifically means to consume or use up completely, corresponding to the 'consume' sense of סוּף. Both express complete consumption or destruction.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Non-Exist002002002006: Daniel 2:44 recounts of the kingdom God will set up, “it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever...it will never be destroyed.”
End002003003010: This same clause in Daniel 2:44 — that the everlasting kingdom “will never be destroyed” — carries the shared lemma-cluster grouping's near-identical “to come to an end; to cease” sense as well, the kingdom's never being destroyed and its never coming to an end being the same assurance.
Happen002002003003: Daniel 4:33 recounts that “immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle.”

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סוּף çûwph · H5486 · to come to an end, to be destroyed, to cease · 7×סוּפָה çûwphâh · H5492 · storm · 16×סוֹף çôwph · H5490 · end, rear, last · 5×סוֹף çôwph · H5491 · end · 5×סוּףçûwph · H5487

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5487. suph [סוּף] verb be fulfilled (properly ended) (ᵑ7 Syriac (often); see Biblical…

H5487. suph
[סוּף] verb be fulfilled (properly ended) (ᵑ7 Syriac (often); see Biblical Hebrew); —
Pe`al Perfect3feminine singular סָ֫פַת מִלְּתָא Dan 4:30 (compare Biblical Hebrew I. כָּלָה Qal 1 c). Haph`el put an end to: Imperfect3feminine singular תָּסֵף Dan 2:44 (accusative of thing).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0