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
H657. ephes אֶ֫פֶס אָ֑פֶס noun masculine properly ceasing, hence 1 end, extremity, only in the poetic phrase אֶרֶץ אַפְסֵי (Psa 59:14 ׳א הארץ) ends, extreme limits, of the earth, used especially hyperbolically: Deut 33:17; 1Sam 2:10; Micah 5:3; Jer 16:19; Psa 2:8; 59:14; 72:8 (= Zech 9:10); + כָּלֿ Isa 45:22; 52:10b (= Psa 98:3b) 22:28; Psalm 67:8; Prov 30:4. 2 Expressing non-existence: a. as substantive. (mostly a rare poetic synonym of אַיִן): Isa 34:12 and all his princes אָ֑פֶס יִהְיוּ shall become nought, (41:29, 12 וּכְאֶפֶס כְאַיִן יִהְיוּ; 40:17 וָתֹהוּ מֵאֶפֶס (|| כְּאַיִן) as made of nought and worthlessness are they accounted by him, 41:24 (readמֵאָ֑פֶס מָּעָלְכָם, || מֵאַיִן see אֶפַע); 52:4 and Asshur oppressed him בְּאֶפֶס for nought. b. as particle of negation, prop. cessation of. . ! (compare ֗֗֗ אֵין nought of...), very rare in prose (2Sam 9:3), chiefly a poetic synonym of ׃אֵין Isa 5:8 מָקוֺם אֶפֶס עַד till there is an end of place = till there is no place (compare אֵין עַָד Psa 40:13), Amos 6:10 (compare אָֽיִן Judg 4:20), Deut 32:36 (hence, in prose, 2Kin 14:26), Isa 45:6 (compare אָין 43:11) 43:14; 46:9; 54:15; עוֺד וְאַפְסִי אֲנִי Zeph 2:15; Isa 47:8, 10 is probably to be rendered, 'I am, and there is none besides (so Ges Ew Di etc.), the י being 'paragogic' as in זוּלָתי etc. (Ges§ 90, 3 a Ew§ 211 b), compare עוֺד וְאֵין 45:5-6, 18, 21; but according to De the י is suffix of 1 singular 'I am, and I am nought besides' (i.e. and I am nought besides my all-sufficient self). — בְּאֶפֶס (like בְּאֵין, q. v.) without: Prov 14:28; 26:20; Job 7:6; Dan 8:25. c. as adverb of limitation: (a) only: Num 22:35 (compare אַח 22:20) 23:13. (b) כִּי אֶפֶס save that, howbeit (qualifying a preceding statement): 13:28; Deut 1:5; Judg 4:9; Amos 9:8 (+ 1Sam 1:5 ᵐ5 We Sta Dr). So אֶפֶס alone 2Sam 12:14 (the following כִּי signifying because). [אֹ֫פֶס noun [masculine] only in the dual אָפְסָ֑ים not ׳א; see Baer), literally the two extremities, i.e. either the soles of the feet (so AW Ges; compare Aramaic מִּיסְּתָא, , or the ankles (so ᵑ9 ᵑ7 ᵑ6, & most): only Ezek 47:2 א ׳מֵי water of (i.e. reaching to) the soles (or ankles); compare 47:4 מָתְנָ֑יִם מֵי water reaching to the loins.
from H656 (אָפֵס); (sometimes like H6466 (פָּעַל))
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
KJV usage
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).