qets marks the endpoint of a stated period, an approaching culmination, or the limit reached by a person, place, or activity.

The term most often marks the endpoint of a measured span of days or years, after which an event occurs. It also denotes a coming or reached culmination in visions, judgment announcements, and the end of a person or city; a smaller set of clauses uses it for a limit, including an extreme point or the absence of any limit.

1. Endpoint of a stated period · dominant

   Construct forms commonly attach the endpoint to a measured span. In Exodus 12:41 the APB renders Israel's departure as occurring "at the end of four hundred and thirty years," while Genesis 8:6 places Noah's opening of the ark's window after forty days; Deuteronomy 15:1 likewise sets remission at the completion of seven years.

   Exodus 12:41Genesis 8:6Deuteronomy 15:11 Kings 2:392 Chronicles 8:1Ezekiel 29:13
2. Appointed culmination of events · common

   In Daniel 11:27 the clause says that the outcome will not prosper because the culmination remains for an appointed time. Daniel 12:4 and Daniel 12:9 place the closing and sealing of the words "until the time of the end," while Habakkuk 2:3 says the vision hastens toward its culmination and will come.

   Daniel 11:27Daniel 11:35Daniel 12:4Daniel 12:9Daniel 8:19Habakkuk 2:3
3. Reached termination or limit · common

   The term can announce a termination that has arrived: in Ezekiel 7:2 the APB renders the repeated announcement, "An end has come," upon the land, and Jeremiah 51:13 addresses one whose end has come. In Genesis 6:13 it is linked with the end of all flesh before the declaration of destruction; in Ecclesiastes 12:12 it occurs in the statement that the making of many scrolls has "no end."

   Ezekiel 7:2Ezekiel 7:6Jeremiah 51:13Genesis 6:13Daniel 11:45Ecclesiastes 12:12
4. Farthest extent · rare

   In Isaiah 37:24, the construct form occurs in the boast of entering Lebanon's "farthest height." The parallel wording in 2 Kings 19:23 similarly describes entry into its farthest lodging, showing an endpoint as an extreme spatial reach rather than a completed period.

   Isaiah 37:242 Kings 19:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB often presents the term with "at the end of" when a period is specified, and with "the end" or "an end" in announcements of culmination or termination. It also uses "farthest" and "no end" in limit-language; these renderings reflect whole clauses.