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Deuteronomy 15:4
“Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H657 · Hebrew
- Definition
- cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or foot
- Derivation
- from H656 (אָפֵס); (sometimes like H6466 (פָּעַל))
- KJV renderings
- ankle, but (only), end, howbeit, less than nothing, nevertheless (where), no, none (beside), not (any, -withstanding), thing of nought, save(-ing), there, uttermost part, want, without (cause).
- Grammar
- אֶ֕פֶס — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 44 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 13:28Numbers 22:35Numbers 23:13Deuteronomy 32:36Deuteronomy 33:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֶפֶס here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.