אָפֵס
ʼâphêç · aw-face'
to disappear, i.e. cease
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to disappear, i.e. cease
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be clean gone (at an end, brought to nought), fail.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to speak, the word › to support and uphold
Strength, the leader that works to speak, the word that works to support and uphold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָפֵס above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- faileth1 · 20%
- fail1 · 20%
- clean gone1 · 20%
- is at an end1 · 20%
- is brought to nought1 · 20%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.