the end or outer edge of something: its farthest point, rim, or border
This word names the outermost part of a thing, the place where it stops. Because an object's ends mark its limits, the word points to terminal points, rims, and edges. It appears most often in the careful descriptions of the tabernacle, where craftsmen set rings, chains, and gold cherubim at the two ends of an object.
From the ends of an object the word reaches out to the ends of the world. The ends of the earth and the edge of the sky are the farthest points anyone can picture, and this word marks that outer horizon.
A third use turns the same picture toward people. To take priests from the ends of the people is to take them from every quarter, from all sorts, rather than from one appointed family. Here the outermost bounds stand for the whole group they enclose. Across all three uses one idea holds: the far edge of something, whether a physical object, the world, or a body of people.