suf · cease, end

What it means

suf (סוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cease, end”.

To cease, to come to an end, to disappear.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Reach a close and leave nothing.
2. Collect everything to remove it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• I will gather ×2
• will come to an end ×2
• They have come to an end ×1
• cease ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Esther×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Esther 9:28

  and these days would be remembered and observed in every generation, each family, each province, and each city; and these days of Purim would not pass away from among the Jews, and the remembrance of them would not cease from their offspring.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they have become a desolation in a moment! They have come to an end, they have been consumed by horrors.

• Isaiah 66:17

  “Those who consecrate themselves and purify themselves for the gardens, after one in the middle, who eat the flesh of pigs and the detestable thing and the mouse, will come to an end together, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 8:13

  I will gather them in completely, declares YHWH. There are no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf withers; and what I gave them will pass away from them.’”

• Amos 3:15

  And I will strike the winter house along with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and many houses will come to an end, declares YHWH.

• Zephaniah 1:2

  “Completely I will gather everything from upon the face of the ground, declares YHWH.