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קֵץ

kets · end

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7093 · appears 67 times in the Bible

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What it means

kets (קֵץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “end”.

"at the end of a time", "after".

How to say it

kets

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. What comes when something finishes: "some days later".
  2. The farthest point.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

End: the point at which something finishes, whether a span of time, a life or an age. With a preposition, at the end of, after a time. It is of the root קָצַץ (cut off); close to it is קָצֶה (extremity, H7097).

How we translate it

“End” 65 times, also in the formula “at the end of”, which measures a span (“at the end of forty days”, Genesis 8:6; “at the end of {some} days”, Genesis 4:3). Once “after” and once “farthest lodging”.

How it is translated

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

  • end ×65
  • after ×1
  • farthest lodging ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 4:3

    And it happened at the end of some days that Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to YHWH.

  • Genesis 6:13

    And Elohim said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and look, I am going to destroy them with the earth.

  • Genesis 8:6

    And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

  • Genesis 16:3

    So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, at the end of ten years of Abram’s living in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

  • Genesis 41:1

    At the end of two full years, Pharaoh was dreaming, and look, he was standing by the Nile.

  • Exodus 12:41

    At the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the armies of YHWH went out from the land of Egypt.

  • Numbers 13:25

    At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

  • Deuteronomy 9:11

    At the end of forty days and forty nights YHWH gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

  • Deuteronomy 15:1

    At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

  • Deuteronomy 31:10

    And Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,

  • Judges 11:39

    At the end of two months she returned to her father, and he did with her his vow that he had vowed; and she had not known a man. And it became a statute in Israel:

  • 2 Samuel 14:26

    When he shaved his head —and it was at the end of every year that he shaved it, for it was heavy on him, and he shaved it —he weighed the hair of his head: two hundred shekels by the weight of the king.

  • 2 Samuel 15:7

    At the end of forty years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow that I vowed to YHWH, in Hebron.

  • 1 Kings 2:39

    And it happened at the end of three years that two slaves of Shimei fled to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

  • 1 Kings 17:7

    And it happened after some days that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

  • 2 Kings 19:23

    Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

  • 2 Chronicles 8:1

    And it happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of YHWH and his own house,

  • 2 Chronicles 18:2

    At the end of some years he went down to Ahab at Samaria; and Ahab sacrificed for him sheep and goats and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and incited him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

  • 2 Chronicles 21:19

    And it happened, as days passed, and at the time of the coming of the end of two years, his bowels came out with his disease, and he died in evil ailments. His people did not make for him a burning like the burning of his fathers.

  • Nehemiah 13:6

    And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone to the king; and at the end of some days I asked leave of the king

  • Esther 2:12

    And when the turn of each young woman came to go in to King Ahasuerus, at the end of twelve months of her being according to the law of the women (for so the days of their ointments were completed: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and with the ointments of the women),

  • Job 6:11

    What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

  • Job 16:3

    Will there be an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you that you answer?

  • Job 22:5

    Is not your evil great, and is there no end to your iniquities?

  • Job 28:3

    He sets an end to darkness, and to every limit he searches out the stone of gloom and of the shadow of death.

  • Psalms 39:4

    “Make me know, YHWH, my end and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how fleeting I am.

  • Psalms 119:96

    Of all perfection I have seen an end; your commandment is exceedingly broad.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:8

    There is one, and no second; he has neither son nor brother, and there is no end to all his toil; also his eye is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving my soul of good?” This too is vapor, and it is a bad occupation.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:16

    There is no end to all the people, to all before whom he was; also the later ones will not rejoice in him. For this too is vapor and striving after wind.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:12

    And besides these, my son, be warned: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

  • Isaiah 9:7

    Of the increase of the dominion and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from now and forever. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

  • Isaiah 23:15

    And it will happen, on that day, that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:

  • Isaiah 23:17

    And it will happen, at the end of seventy years, that YHWH will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages, and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.

  • Isaiah 37:24

    Through your servants you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter the height of its farthest end, the forest of its orchard.

  • Jeremiah 13:6

    And it happened at the end of many days that YHWH said to me: “Get up, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the belt that I commanded you to hide there.”

  • Jeremiah 34:14

    At the end of seven years you shall let go, each one, his brother the Hebrew, who has been sold to you and has served you six years; and you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.

  • Jeremiah 42:7

    And it happened at the end of ten days, and the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah.

  • Jeremiah 50:26

    Come against her from the farthest end; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps, and devote her to destruction; let there be no remnant of her.

  • Jeremiah 51:13

    You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your gain.

  • Lamentations 4:18

    They have hunted our steps so that we cannot walk in our squares; our end has drawn near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

And 27 more times.