אָפֵס
afes · run out, cease
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H656 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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afes (אָפֵס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “run out, cease”.
Run out, come to an end, fail; be gone.
How to say it
a·fes
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
- Run out, leave nothing.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- gone ×2
- ceased ×1
- has come to an end ×1
- has come to nothing ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 47:15
When the silver was gone from the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us bread! Why should we die before you? For our silver is gone.”
- Genesis 47:16
Joseph said, “Give your livestock, and I will give you bread for your livestock, if your silver is gone.”
- Psalms 77:8
Has his loyal love ceased forever? Has his word come to an end from generation to generation?
- Isaiah 16:4
Let my banished ones reside as aliens among you, Moab; be a hiding place for them from before the devastator. For the oppressor has come to an end, devastation has ceased, the tramplers have vanished from the land.
- Isaiah 29:20
For the tyrant has come to nothing, and the scoffer is finished, and all who watch for wickedness will be cut off,