קְצָת
end
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 5 times (63%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 2 times (25%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7117 appears — 8 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 37:8 קצוות/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
- Exodus 38:5 הַ/קְּצָוֺ֖ת ptcl def.art + n c fp He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.
- Exodus 39:4 קצוות/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 1:2 וּ/מִ/קְצָת֙ conj + prep + n c fs cs The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
- Daniel 1:5 וּ/מִ֨/קְצָתָ֔/ם conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at the end of it they should stand before the king.
- Daniel 1:15 וּ/מִ/קְצָת֙ conj + prep + n c fs cs At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.
- Daniel 1:18 וּ/לְ/מִ/קְצָת֙ conj + prep + Preposition + n c fs cs At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
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, קצת (qᵉtsâth) means “end.” The word gravitates to Daniel (50%), then Exodus and Nehemiah. It turns up in 8 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Exodus 37:8. Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7117 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 38%
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 2×
- American Standard Version: End 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: After which 1×, Along with some 1×, Corners 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: End of 2×, Ends 2×, Its 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7117 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H7117 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H7117 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7117 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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, of corners of grating Ex 38:5 (‖ קְצוֹתָיו 27:4), cf. Ex 37:8; 39:4 supr. (all P); ends of earth ψ 65:9. e.g. Exodus 38:5
- 2. מִקְצָת (some) from the end of, some of (מִן 3 b) Ne 7:69 (so NH), Dn 1:2. e.g. Nehemiah 7:68
- 3. מִק׳ at the end of a certain time Dn 1:5, 15, 18. e.g. Daniel 1:5
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.f. end (LagBN 10 Ges§ 95 n);—cstr. ק׳ Ne 7:69 (Gi Baer, v 70 van d. H.) +; sf. קְצָתָם Dn 1:5; pl. abs. קְצָוֹת Ex 38:5 ψ 65:9 (+ perhaps קצוותו Ex 37:8; 39:4 Kt. v. קָצָה; Köii. 1, 61 der. these pl. forms from [קָ֫צוּ]);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קצה (qâtsâh) (H7096) — 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.
קְצָת
- end.—Pl. קְצָווֹת; constr. קִצְווֹת. Tanḥ. Vayesheb 2 לק׳ המדבר to the ends of the desert.—V. מִקְצָת.
קְצַת
- 1. part. Targ. O. Num. XXII, 41. Targ. Job IV, 12. Targ. Gen. XLVII, 2 ed. Bon. (oth. ed. מקצת); a. e.
- 2. extreme end. Targ. Y. Num. l. c.
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 5 distinct written forms H7117 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/מִ/קְצָת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 1:2 | 3 |
| קצוות/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 37:8 | 2 |
| הַ/קְּצָוֺ֖ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 38:5 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/מִ/קְצָת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 1:18 | 1 |
| וּ/מִ֨/קְצָתָ֔/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 1:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7117, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 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
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.
