Word

סוֹף

çôwph · H5490 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

end, rear

A reference to the side of an object that is furthest away from a person or object

Examples
2 Chronicles 20:16 ‘Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.
Joel 2:20 “But I will remove the northern army far from you, And I will drive it into a dry and desolate land, Its advance guard into the eastern sea, And its rear guard into the western sea. And its stench will ascend and its odor of decay will come up, Because it has done great things.”
end, last

The final phase of a certain process or activity

Examples
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting, Because that is the end of every person, And the living takes it to heart.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 4 groups

אָדָםhuman, humankind, human being(s) 1
דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
נַחַלstream, valley, wadi 1
הוּhis 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 2
עַדto, as far as, until 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.

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In the other Testament 1 word

τέλος télos · G5056 · end, outcome, result: τέλος (télos, G5056) serves as the standard Greek rendering of Hebrew סוֹף (çôwph, H5490), both denoting the termination point or conclusion of a temporal or spatial sequence.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Spatial Referents003002005: This entry carries no independent "Spatial Referents" sense of its own distinct from ordinary conclusion/end; the genuine tagged occurrences (e.g. Ecclesiastes 3:11, 7:2, 12:13) concern an abstract end or conclusion, not a spatial referent. The domain is bundle-shared with the lexeme's own broader sense range.
Time002002002010: סוֹף describes the end or conclusion of something, illustrated at Ecclesiastes 7:2 ("that is the end of every person") and Ecclesiastes 12:13 ("the end of the matter").

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×סוֹףçôwph · H5490סוֹף çôwph · H5491 · end · 5×סוּף çûwph · H5487 · consume, fulfill · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5490. soph סוֺף noun masculineEcc 7:2 end, late synonym of קֵץ; — ׳ס absolute Ecc 3:11,…

H5490. soph
סוֺף noun masculineEcc 7:2 end, late synonym of קֵץ; — ׳ס absolute Ecc 3:11, construct 2Ch 20:16 2Ch 20:2t.; suffix סֹפוֺ Joe 2:20; — end of wady 2Ch 20:16, of invading swarm Joe 2:20; of God's work וְעַדסֿוֺף מֵראֹשׁ Ecc 3:11; death as end of all men Ecc 7:2; = conclusion, sum of instruction Ecc 12:13. compare Baram.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Time3 occurrences Spatial Referents2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.

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