An extremity ; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
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H7093 is a Hebrew noun for an end, extremity, boundary, outcome, or point reached after an interval. It can mark the end of a measured period, the farthest edge of a place, the outcome of a life, or a divinely appointed conclusion in prophetic vision.
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H7093 is a Hebrew noun for an end, extremity, boundary, outcome, or point reached after an interval. It can mark the end of a measured period, the farthest edge of a place, the outcome of a life, or a divinely appointed conclusion in prophetic vision.
The BSB source-word alignment has 67 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include The end (11), After (7), At the end (7), of the end (7), . . . (6).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 4:3. Its strongest book concentrations include Daniel (15), Ezekiel (9), Genesis (5), Jeremiah (5).
H7093 is a Hebrew noun for an end, extremity, boundary, outcome, or point reached after an interval. It can mark the end of a measured period, the farthest edge of a place, the outcome of a life, or a divinely appointed conclusion in prophetic vision. Exodus 12:41 says that at the end of 430 years the Lord’s divisions left Egypt, locating deliverance in remembered time.
Psalm 39:4 asks God to make the psalmist know his end and the measure of his days, turning mortality toward humility. Habakkuk 2:3 says the vision testifies about the end and will surely come at its appointed time, calling for faithful waiting. Prophets also announce an end of judgment for particular peoples and settings. H7093 therefore does not make every “end” text a timetable for the end of world history.
The book, audience, time expression, and prophetic horizon must govern the claim. It opens teaching on mortality, limits, judgment, patient hope, and God’s appointed purposes. It corrects speculative date-setting and the despairing idea that human limits place history beyond God’s faithful rule.
H7093 names endpoints in time, space, life, labor, and prophetic history. Some uses are ordinary chronological markers; others carry the weight of judgment or promised completion. The noun establishes a boundary or outcome, but only the context identifies whose end and what scale is in view.
At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
Israel’s departure occurs at the end of the stated 430 years, presenting the exodus as a concrete act of deliverance within remembered history.
“Show me, O Lord, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
The psalmist asks to know his end and the measure of his days so that he may recognize the fleeting character of human life.
For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
The vision moves toward an appointed end and will not prove false; apparent delay calls for waiting rather than abandonment of trust.
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Hebrew word. Marks spatial or temporal boundaries; the endpoint where something ceases or transitions to what follows.
Marks spatial or temporal boundaries; the endpoint where something ceases or transitions to what follows.
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after BDB: end Usage: after, (utmost) border, end, (in-) finite, × process.
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H7093 places endings under God’s truth without making them available for human control. Some endings are plain chronological boundaries: a span of years concludes, a journey reaches its extremity, or a season runs its course. Psalm 39 turns the certainty of personal death into a prayer for wisdom about human frailty. Prophetic books can intensify the noun, announcing that injustice, covenant rebellion, or an empire’s apparent permanence has a divinely set limit.
Habakkuk’s vision joins an appointed end to waiting, because faithfulness lives between promise and visible fulfillment. Daniel likewise uses end language within complex visions whose own explanations and horizons must be respected. The word does not authorize interpreters to identify every political event as the final countdown or to calculate dates Scripture withholds.
Nor does it make grief over an ending faithless. H7093 helps a congregation name mortality and judgment honestly while trusting that God’s purpose does not drift. Wise teaching asks what this passage says has reached, or will reach, its limit and how God calls hearers to live meanwhile. The faithful response may be repentance, patience, courageous action, lament, or hope, but never sensational certainty built from the noun alone.
Hab.2.3
H7093 is a noun of extremity or endpoint. With temporal expressions it can mean after a period or at its end; spatially it can identify a farthest edge; prophetically it can name an appointed outcome. Grammar and discourse scale prevent automatic eschatological readings.
The New Testament intensifies hope for Christ’s return, resurrection, judgment, and new creation, but H7093 does not turn every Old Testament boundary into a direct prediction of those events. Canonical fulfillment should preserve the original prophetic and historical address.