Lexicon :: Strong's H7093 - qēṣ

God said to Noah, “I intend to make an end of all that lives, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I am about to [fn]destroy them together with the land.

At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;

Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the [fn]Nile.

When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release (remission, pardon) from debt.

And after [fn]four years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to the LORD at [fn]Hebron [my birthplace].

But it happened after three years, that two of Shimei’s servants ran away to Achish the son of Maacah, the king of [fn]Gath. And Shimei was told, “Behold, your [runaway] servants are in Gath.”

‘Through your messengers you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And have said [boastfully], “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

I cut down its tall cedar trees and its choicest cypress trees.

I entered its most distant lodging, its densest forest.

Now it came about at the end of the twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house (palace),

Now when it was each young woman’s turn to go before King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their beautification were completed as follows: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with [sweet] spices and perfumes and the beauty preparations for women—

“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?

And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?

“Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind?

Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?

“Is not your wickedness great,

And your sins without end?

“Man puts an end to darkness [by bringing in a light],

And to the farthest bounds he searches out

The rock buried in gloom and deep shadow.

“LORD, let me know my [life’s] end

And [to appreciate] the extent of my days;

Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].

I have seen that all [human] perfection has its limits [no matter how grand and perfect and noble];

Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits [into eternity].

There shall be no end to the increase of His government and of peace,

[He shall rule] on the throne of David and over his kingdom,

To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness

From that time forward and forevermore.

The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.

Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the prostitute’s song:

It will come to pass at the end of seventy years that the LORD will remember Tyre. Then she will return to her prostitute’s wages and will play the [role of a] prostitute [by trading] with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

“Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees;

And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.

Now after ten days [of prayer] had passed the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

Come against her from the farthest border.

Open her storehouses;

Pile it up like heaps of rubbish.

Burn and destroy her completely;

Let nothing be left of her.

[O Babylon] you who live by many waters,

Rich in treasures,

Your end has come,

And the line measuring your life is cut.

The enemy hunted our steps,

So that we could not walk in our streets;

Our end drew near,

Our days were finished

For our end had come.

‘For thus says the Lord GOD, “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they were scattered.

“Because you [descendants of Esau] have had an everlasting hatred [for Jacob (Israel)] and you handed over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their tragedy, at the time of their final punishment [the Babylonian conquest],