קֵץ
end
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7093 appears in the Book of Habakkuk — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Habakkuk
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, קץ (qêts) means “end.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 4:3. It appears 62 verses across 21 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. It clusters with קצץ, קצץ and מקץ under a shared root. Dig into 62-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7093 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 62
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 62 distinct verses.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #587
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 587 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 62 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 62 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 28 verses · 45%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 24 verses · 39%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 16%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: End 31×, Came to pass at the end 7×, After 6×
- American Standard Version: End 31×, Came to pass at the end 8×, After 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: End 35×, After 9×, Farthest 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: End 29×, End of 24×, After 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7093 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7093 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7093 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7093 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. end, usually of time, especially in phr. מִקֵּץ at the end of a definite time Gn 8:6 (J), 41:1 (E), 16:3 (P) + 15 times, + מִקֵּץ הֱיוֹת Est 2:12; indef. Gn 4:3 (J); 1 K 17:7; Je 13:6; so (late) לְקֵץ of indef. time 2 Ch 18:2 Ne 13:6 Dn 11:6, 13; defin. כְעֵת צֵאת הַקּ׳ לְיָמִים שְׁנַיִם 2 Ch 21:19; end of life, of a people Am 8:2; Ez 7:2(×2), 3, 6(×2); Je 51:13; La 4:18(×2), cf. (of all flesh) Gn 6:13 (P); of individ. Jb 6:11 ψ 39:5 (‖ מִדַּת יָמִי), Dn 9:26a; 11:45; in eschatol. sense, עֵת עֲוֹן קֵץ time of final punishment (Toy) Ez 21:30, 34; 35:5; לַקֵּץ Hb 2:3 to the end; especially Dn, of time of Antiochus’ persecution, foll. by A.’s death, עֵת קֵץ time of the end 8:17; 11:35, 40; 12:4, 9, מוֹעֵד ק׳ 8:19; cf. ק׳ הַיָּמִין 12:13, ק׳ alone 9:26b; 12:13; end, cessation, abs. ק׳ לַמּוֹעֵד 11:27; ק׳ הַפְּלָאוֹת 12:6, of words Jb 16:3, darkness 28:3, perfection ψ 119:96; אֵין ק׳ no end, of peace Is 9:6, iniquities Jb 22:5, toil Ec 4:8, עֲשׂוֹת סְפָרִים 12:12. e.g. Genesis 8:6
- 2. end, in space, מְלוֹן קִצֹּה 2 K 19:23 its remotest lodging-place = Is 37:24 (v. מָלוֹן p. 533); אֵין ק׳, of multitude Ec 4:16.—Je 50:26 v. קָצֶה e.g. 2 Kings 19:23
- 3. .
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Ez 7:6 end;—ק׳ abs. Am 8:2 +, cstr. Gn 4:3 +, עֶת־ Dn 8:17; sf. קִצּוֹ Is 37:24 +, קִצֹּה ‖ 2 K 19:23, etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קצץ (qâtsats) (H7112) — to cut off.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קָץ
- (קצץ) Decreer of Falsehood, legendary name of one of the Sodomitic judges. Gen. R. s. 50; Yalk. ib. 84, v. קַוְשֶׁקֶר.
קַץ
- , v. קְצַץ
קֵץ
- end, term, designated time, esp. the time of redemption. Gen. R. s. 44 (ref. to Is. XLI, 5) זה שרוי בקִיצּוֹ של עולם וכ׳ this one (Abraham) dwelt in one extreme part of the world, and that one (Shem) in the other &c. Ned. 41ᵃ כיון שהגיע קיצו וכ׳ when a man’s time (to die) has come. Meg. 3ᵃ משום דאית ביה קץ משיח because therein (in the Hagiographa) are contained intimations about the Messianic term (the Book of Daniel). Snh. 92ᵇ שמנו לקץ וטעו who ventured calculations as to the time of the redemption from Egypt, and made a mistake; Ex. R. s. 20 יצאו … שלם הקץ they left Egypt before the predestined term had expired; a. fr.—Pl. קִצִּים, קִצִּין, קִי׳. Ab. Zar. 61ᵇ ממונה הבא לק׳ a superintendent that comes at regular times. Snh. 97ᵇ מחשבי ק׳, v. חָשַׁב. Ib. כלו כל הק׳ ואין וכ׳ all the dates of redemption (calculated from the Scriptures) have passed, and the thing depends only on repentance. Cant. R. to II, 8; Lev. R. s. 19, v. עִיבּוּר. Pesik. R. s. 15, v. קִפַץ; a. fr.—[קיצין, Cant. R. to V, 11, v. קִיץ.] e.g. Isaiah 41:5
קֵץ ²
- Targ. O. Gen. VI, 13. Targ. Ez. VII, 6. Targ. Jer. VIII, 20 ed. Lag. (ed. קִבָּא); a. fr.—Lam. R. to II, 2; to IV, 18 קרב קצנו ק׳ דההיא ביתא ‘our end has come near’, the end of that house (the Temple); Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵃ קִיצֵּיה דההוא וכ׳; a. e.—Pl. קִצַּיָּא, קִי׳. Targ. Y. I Gen. XLIX, 1. Targ. Job VII, 12, v. גְּרַף.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 38 distinct written forms H7093 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7093, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 59 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 62 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:3
- Exodus 12:41
- Numbers 13:25
- Deuteronomy 9:11
- Judges 11:39
- 2 Samuel 14:26
- 1 Kings 2:39
- 2 Kings 19:23
- 2 Chronicles 8:1
- Esther 2:12
- Job 6:11
- Psalms 39:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
