Quick Definition
to end
Strong's Definition
to disappear, i.e. cease
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: be clean gone (at an end, brought to nought), fail.
TWOT Reference: 147
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אָפֵס (a.phes) — to end. (Qal) to cease, break, come to an end
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אֶפֶס · אֹפֶס
Non-Space | verb qal
to be finished = to be no longer present in a certain location
Non-Exist | verb qal | ≈ כלה · כרת
to disappear, to be gone = to disappear from existence
End | verb qal | ≈ גמר
to cease = process by which an event comes to an end before the expected time
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אָפֵס vb. cease, fail, come to an end base
