Strong H5486סוּף

to cease

Transliteration
sûph
Pronunciation
soof
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to snatch {away} that {is} terminate: - {consume} have an {end} {perish} X be utterly.

Detailed definition

1) to cease, come to an end
1a) (Qal) to come to an end
1b) (Hiphil) to make an end
Aramaic equivalent: suph (סוּף "be fulfilled" H5487)

In the Bible

Strong H5486 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • consume4
  • be1
  • end1
  • perish1

First verses

  1. Esther 9:28
    And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
  2. Psalms 73:19
    How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
  3. Isaiah 66:17
    They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
  4. Jeremiah 8:13
    I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
  5. Amos 3:15
    And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.
  6. Zephaniah 1:2
    I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
  7. Zephaniah 1:3
    I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.
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