אֶפֶס ephes

Hebrew word for “end” · Strong’s H657 · used 44 times in 43 verses

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Meaning

1) ceasing, end, finality; 2) expressing non-existence

Senses in the lexicon

• end (43)
• soles (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for ephes in context, with how often each is used:

• ends 14
• there not 6
• nevertheless 5
• not 5
• nothing 5
• only i 3
• only 2
• ¿ is there not 1
• nothingness 1
• no 1
• ankles 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Isaiah 45 (3), Isaiah 41 (2), Isaiah 47 (2), Isaiah 52 (2), Numbers 13 (1), Numbers 22 (1), Numbers 23 (1), Deuteronomy 15 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1)

Forms

• אפס 13
• אפסי 12
• ואפס 5
• באפס 3
• ואפסי 3
• ובאפס 2
• האפס 1
• לאפסי 1
• מאפס 1
• וכאפס 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ephes more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 12
• עוֹד od “still” 9
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 6
• רָאָה raah “to see” 7
• זָכַר zakhar “to remember” 4
• אֲנִי ani “I” 5
• עֹז oz “strength” 3
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 5
• תֹּהוּ tohu “formlessness” 2
• לֵבָב levav “heart” 3
• אֵל el “God” 3
• שָׁם sham “there” 4

Key verses

The verses using ephes that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 32:36 — For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
• 1 Samuel 2:10 — The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give…
• Psalms 2:8 — Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
• Psalms 22:27 — All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
• Psalms 72:8 — He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
• Psalms 98:3 — He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• Isaiah 45:14 — Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine:…
• Isaiah 45:22 — Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
• Isaiah 52:10 — The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
• Jeremiah 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say,…
• Micah 5:4 — And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto…
• Zechariah 9:10 — And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.