Strong’s H5490 · Hebrew

סוֹף
çôwph
sofe

Definition

a termination

Etymology

from H5486 (סוּף);

Where the KJV renders it

  • conclusion
  • end
  • hinder participle

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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