אָפֵס ʼâphêç — to disappear, i.e. cease
Translated in the KJV as be clean gone (at an end, brought to nought), fail.
a primitive root; to disappear, i.e. cease.
ʼâphêç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 5
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›