The Hebrew noun qets means end, limit, or extremity — the termination point of time or space. Occurring about 67 times in the OT, it can refer to the end of a period of time, the end of the earth, or the eschatological end of the age. Daniel uses it extensively for the 'end times.'
Qets is a key eschatological term in Daniel, where the 'time of the end' (et qets) features prominently (Daniel 8:17; 11:35; 12:4). This word shapes biblical eschatology: history has a God-ordained qets — an end that is not merely termination but fulfillment. God declares 'the end from the beginning' (Isaiah 46:10). The qets is not an accident or an unknown — it is God's appointed consummation of all things. Jesus is the Alpha and Omega — the beginning and the qets.