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סוֹף   n.m.  end
chronological  Com.   death  JLAtg, LJLA. dlˀ swp : endless  Qumran, CPA, Syr. לסוף٠ לסופא٠ בסופא‏ : adv. : eventually, in the end  JLAtg, JBA. לסוף٠ בסוף٠ מסוף‏ : prep. at the end of, after  Qumran, JLAtg, JBA.

  final thing  LJLA.

In LJLA there are multiple passages wherein both סיף and סוף appear in the same context. Although some may be due to scribal correction, others may well be due to intentional lexical variation on the part of the authorship, a practice that has been becoming clear in recent studies.
  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 371a; DJBA: 796; Jastrow: 968; Levy Ch-W: 2:152; Tal Sam: 575a; DNWSI: 796; DJA: 67a; Cook,Qumran: 164;

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Derivatives:

swp ˁqb n.m.   very end
spwwn, spwwnˀ n.m.   unexpected end (??)

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