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# אָפֵס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H656

**cease** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/656/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָפֵס: vb. cease, fail, come to an end Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/656/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (cf. II. פָּסַס) vb. cease, fail, come to an end: only Qal Pf. 3 ms.; Gn 47:15, 16 (of money, כֶּסֶף), Is 16:4 (extortioner: ‖ כָּלָה, תַּם), 29:20 (terrible one: ‖ כָּלָה, נִכְרַת), ψ 77:9 (חַסְדּוֹ: ‖ גָּמַר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will come to an end (2); it has come to an end (2); it come to an end? (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 29:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.20/#tree)

כִּֽי־אָפֵ֥ס עָרִ֖יץ וְכָ֣לָה לֵ֑ץ וְנִכְרְת֖וּ כָּל־שֹׁ֥קְדֵי אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.will.come.to.an.end \[the\].ruthless.person and he.will.come.to.an.end \[the\].mocker and they.will.be.cut.off all \[those.who\].lie.in.wait of.wickedness

*JPS 1917:* For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;

[Psalms 77:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.9/#tree)

הֶאָפֵ֣ס לָנֶ֣צַח חַסְדּ֑וֹ גָּ֥מַר אֹ֝֗מֶר לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* has it.come.to.an.end? to perpetuity loyalty his.covenant has.it.come.to.an.end? a.word to a.generation and a.generation

*JPS 1917:* Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Is His promise come to an end for evermore?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/656.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/656/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).