אָפֵס
ʼâphêç · H656 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to be finished
To be no longer present in a certain location
ExamplesGenesis 47:15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph saying, “Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.”
Genesis 47:16 Then Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock, since your money is gone.”
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to disappear, to be gone
To disappear from existence
ExamplesIsaiah 16:4 “Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.” For the oppressor has come to an end, destruction has ceased, Oppressors have been removed from the land.
Isaiah 29:20 For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished, Indeed all who are intent on doing evil will be eliminated,
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to cease
Process by which an event comes to an end before the expected time
ExamplesPsalm 77:8 Has His favor ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever?
How it’s used In 2 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
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- כֶּסֶףsilver 2
- חֵסֵדsteadfast love, kindness, loyalty 1
- מוּץoppressor 1
- עָרִיץmighty 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ נֶצַחforever 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- אָבַד ʼâbad · H6 · to be lost, to wander, to stray
- אָבַד (‘to perish’) and the target lexeme both share the sense of cessation or coming to an end — to perish, fail, or come to nothing — functioning as near-synonyms.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐκλείπω ekleípō · G1587 · to give out, to fail, to depart out of
- Greek ἐκλείπω renders Hebrew אָפֵס in contexts of cessation or depletion, both denoting the ending or exhaustion of something; the Greek term emphasizes the action of ceasing or failing while the Hebrew emphasizes the resulting state of being finished or gone.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Non-Space002002001018
- אָפֵס describes something coming to nothing or vanishing entirely, a state of having no place left.
- Non-Exist002002002006
- The word describes something ceasing to exist, as the Egyptians' money being entirely spent and gone.
- End002003003010
- It also marks the coming to an end of a resource or condition, as compassion that seems to have run its course.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H656. aphes אָפֵס (compare מָּסַס) verb cease, fail, come to an end: only Qal…
אָפֵס (compare מָּסַס) verb cease, fail, come to an end: only
Qal Perfect3masculine singular; Gen 47:15-16, (of money, כֶּסֶף), Isa 16:4 (extortioner: || תַּם כָּלָה,), Isa 29:20 (terrible one: || נִכְרַת כָּלָה,), Psa 77:9 (חסְדּוֺ || גָּמַר).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
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