סוּףçûwph

come to an end, cease

Pronunciation: soof · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5486

Meanings

Qal: come to an end (Psalms 73:19; Amos 3:15; Esther 9:28)

Hiph`il: make an end of (Zephaniah 1:2; Zephaniah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:13)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Esther 9:28 These days would be remembered and kept from generation to generation and celebrated by every family throughout the provinces and cities of the empire. This Festival of Purim would never cease to be celebrated among the Jews, nor would the memory of what happened ever die out among their descendants.
  • Psalms 73:19 In an instant they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors.
  • Isaiah 66:17 “Those who ‘consecrate’ and ‘purify’ themselves in a sacred garden with its idol in the center—feasting on pork and rats and other detestable meats—will come to a terrible end,” says the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 8:13 I will surely consume them. There will be no more harvests of figs and grapes. Their fruit trees will all die. Whatever I gave them will soon be gone. I, the Lord, have spoken!’
  • Zephaniah 1:2 “I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
  • Zephaniah 1:3 “I will sweep away people and animals alike. I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea. I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble, and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).