Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5490
סוֹף
sophsofe
end
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çôwph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5490is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5490
a termination
The King James renders it: conclusion, end, hinder participle
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
soph is rendered "end". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 20:16Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles 20:16בְּס֣וֹף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- end of2
- and end its1
- at end of1
- end1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סוֹף | soph | end | Uses5 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּס֣וֹף1
- וְסֹפ֖וֹ1
- ס֣וֹף1
- ס֥וֹף1
- סֽוֹף׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
2 Chronicles
one use
Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.
- בְּס֣וֹףbesofpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at end of
Ecclesiastes
three uses
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- סֽוֹף׃sofnoun · masculine singulartagged: end
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
- ס֣וֹףsofnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: end of
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
- ס֥וֹףsofnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: end of
Joel
one use
The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
- וְסֹפ֖וֹvesofoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and end its
The letters
Gematria 146· 866 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.