אַחַר
after
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H310 appears in the Book of Joshua — 36 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua
- Joshua 1:1 אַחֲרֵ֛י prep Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
- Joshua 2:5 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֖ם prep + sfx pers 3mp and it happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; where the men went I don't know: pursue after them quickly; for you will overtake them.
- Joshua 2:7 אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶם֙ אַחֲרֵ֕י אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp prep prep + sfx pers 3mp The men pursued after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
- Joshua 2:16 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.
- Joshua 3:3 אַחֲרָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.
- Joshua 6:8 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.
- Joshua 6:9 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rearward went after the ark, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went.
- Joshua 6:13 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went.
- Joshua 7:8 אַ֠חֲרֵי prep Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
- Joshua 8:2 מֵ/אַחֲרֶֽי/הָ prep + prep + sfx pers 3fs You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.
- Joshua 8:4 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֣י prep + prep He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:
- Joshua 8:6 אַחֲרֵ֗י/נוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:14 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֥י prep + prep It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
- Joshua 8:16 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם אַחֲרֵ֣י prep + sfx pers 3mp prep All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- Joshua 8:17 אַחֲרֵ֣י אַחֲרֵ֥י prep prep There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
- Joshua 8:20 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֜ם prep + sfx pers 3mp When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
- Joshua 8:34 וְ/אַֽחֲרֵי conj + prep Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
- Joshua 9:16 אַחֲרֵ֕י prep It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
- Joshua 10:14 וְ/אַחֲרָ֔י/ו conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.
- Joshua 10:19 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep but don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them; don't allow them to enter into their cities: for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.
- Joshua 10:26 אַֽחֲרֵי prep Afterward Joshua struck them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees until the evening.
- Joshua 14:8 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
- Joshua 14:9 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.
- Joshua 14:14 אַחֲרֵ֕י prep Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because that he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Joshua 20:5 אַֽחֲרָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.
- Joshua 22:16 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֖י prep + prep Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?
- Joshua 22:18 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֖י prep + prep that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
- Joshua 22:23 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֣י prep + prep that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Yahweh himself require it;
- Joshua 22:27 אַחֲרֵי/נוּ֒ prep + sfx pers 1cp but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.
- Joshua 22:29 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֣י prep + prep Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent.
- Joshua 23:1 אַ֠חֲרֵי prep It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;
- Joshua 24:5 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in the midst of it: and afterward I brought you out.
- Joshua 24:6 אַחֲרֵ֧י prep I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
- Joshua 24:20 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he has done you good.
- Joshua 24:29 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
- Joshua 24:31 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אחר (ʼachar) means “after.” Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Spanning 664 verses in 31 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 5:4. Sharing its root, it stands alongside אחר, אחר and אחרון. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H310 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 664
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 664 distinct verses.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #71
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 71 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 664 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 664 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 356 verses · 54%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 187 verses · 28%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 121 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: After 398×, Afterward 35×, Behind 35×
- American Standard Version†: After 346×, Afterward 32×, Behind 26×
- Berean Standard Bible†: After 153×, Behind 23×, After that 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: After 351×, After him 80×, After them 39×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H310 across 682† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 68 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 27 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H310 across 680† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 104 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H310 across 555† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 94 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 158 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H310 across 711† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 42 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
18 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 18 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. adv.
- a. of place, behind, twice Gn 22:13 (many MSS. Sam. 𝔊 𝔖 Ol Ew read אֶחָד v. Di) ψ 68:26. e.g. Genesis 22:13
- b. of time, afterwards Gn 10:18; 18:5; 24:55; 30:21 Ju 19:5 +; וְאַחַר in laws of P, as Lv 14:8, 19; 15:28; 22:7 Nu 5:26 al. e.g. Genesis 10:18
- 2. prep.
- a. of place, behind, after Ex 3:1; 11:5 2 K 11:6 Ct 2:9 Is 57:8: הָלַךְ אַחַר to go after, follow Gn 37:17 2 K 13:2; 23:3 Is 65:2 Ez 13:3 Jb 31:7; הָיָה אַחַר 1 S 12:14; מֵאַחַר from after †2 S 7:8 ψ 78:71 Is 59:13. e.g. Exodus 3:1
- b. of time, after Gn 9:28 Lv 25:15 al; אַחַר הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה after these things †Gn 15:1; 22:1; 39:7; 40:1 1 K 17:17; 21:1 Ezr 7:1 Est 2:1; 3:1; אַחַר כֵּן †Lv 14:36 Dt 21:13 1 S 10:5; אַחַר זֶה (late) 2 Ch 32:9: sq. inf. †Nu 6:19 Je 40:1 1 Ch 2:24 Jb 21:3; עַד אַחַר till after †Ne 13:19. e.g. Genesis 9:28
- c. Ne 5:15 strangely: Ew RV besides; but text prob. corrupt, v. BeRy. e.g. Nehemiah 5:15
- 3. †conj. אַחַר אֲשֶׁר after that Ez 40:1; and without אשׁר Lv 14:43 Je 41:16 Jb 42:7. As prep. & conj. the pl. אַחֲרֵי is much more freq., which in any case must be used before suffixes. e.g. Ezekiel 40:1
Plur
- only cstr. אַחֲרֵי with sf. אַחֲרַי, אַחֲרֶיךָ, etc.
- 1. subst. hinder part †2 S 2:23 בְּאַחֲרֵי הַחֲנִית with the hinder end of the spear. e.g. 2 Samuel 2:23
- 2. prep.
- a. of place, behind, after, Gn 18:10 וְהוּא אַחֲרָיו and it behind him Dt 11:30 Ju 5:14 1 S 14:13; 21:10; Ho 5:8 אַחֲרֶיךָ Behind thee! (sc. Look or The foe is); with a vb. as הִבִּיט to look Gn 19:17 1 S 24:9, הֵנִיעַ רֹאשׁ to shake the head 2 K 19:21 (= Is 37:22), especially verbs expressing or implying motion, as בָּא to enter in (v. Dr 2 S 20:14), בִּעֵר, דָּבֵק, דָּלַק, הָיָה, הָלַךְ, מִלֵּא, פָּנָה, רָדַף, הִשְׁלִיךְ (see these words). e.g. Genesis 18:10
- b. of time, after Gn 9:9 זַרְעֲכֶם אַחֲרֵיכֶם your seed after you; similarly 17:7–10, 19; 35:12; 48:4 Ex 28:43 Nu 25:13 all P (also Dt 1:8; 4:37; 10:15 1 S 24:22 2 S 7:12 ‖), & with בָּנָיו Gn 18:19 J (+ בֵּיתוֹ) Ex 29:29 P Lv 25:46 H Dt 4:40; 12:25, 28 Je 32:18, 39 1 Ch 28:8 Pr 20:7, דּוֹרוֹתֵינוּ Jos 22:27, בֵּיתוֹ Jb 21:21; Ex 10:14 Ju 10:3 etc.; with inf. Gn 5:4 אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ after his begetting Sheth, 13:14; 14:17; 18:12; 25:11 + often; אַחֲרֵי־כֵן afterwards Gn 6:4 (אחרי כן אשׁר = afterwards, when, cf. 2 Ch 35:20) 15:14; 23:19; 25:26; 32:21; 41:31; 45:15 etc.; ויהי אחרי־כן as a formula of transition chiefly in 2 S (2:1; 8:1 ‖ 10:1 ‖ 13:1; 21:18 ‖) cf. 1 S 24:6 Ju 16:4 2 K 6:24 2 Ch 20:1 24:4†; in late Heb. אַחֲרֵי זֹאת †Jb 42:16 Ezr 9:10 2 Ch 21:18 (+ כָּלִ־) 35:20 (do.); cf. Aramaic אַחֲרִי דְנָה Dn 2:29, 45, and בָּאתַר דְּנָה Dn 7:6, 7.—The local (metaph.) and temporal senses blend ψ 49:14 וְאַחֲרֵיהֶם בְּפִיהֶם יִרְצוּ & after them (i.e. following, imitating them) men applaud their speech, cf. Jb 21:33. e.g. Genesis 9:9
- 3. conj. אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר after that, with the finite vb. Dt 24:4 Jos 7:8; 9:16; 23:1; 24:20 +; without אשׁר †Lv 25:48; 1 S 5:9†. (The most common constr. of אחרי is as a prep. with the inf. cstr.) Jos 2:7 אַהֲרֵי כַּאֲשֶׁר יָצְֽאוּ must be an error, either for אחרי אשׁר or for כאשׁר alone (notice אחריהם twice in the same verse); 2 S 24:10 read אַחֲרֵי סָפַר vid. Dr e.g. Deuteronomy 24:4
- 4. with other preps.:—
- a. מֵאַחֲרֵי57, 1 Ch 17:7 מִן־אַחֲרֵי (‖ 2 S 7:8 מֵאַחַר); (α) from behind Gn 19:26 2 S 2:23; from after i.e. from following after, usually with שׁוּב or סוּר 1 S 24:2 2 S 2:22, 26, 30; 11:15; often with God as obj. as Nu 14:43; 32:15 Dt 7:4 Jos 22:16, 18, 23, 29 1 S 15:11 +; with other vbs. of motion, as עָלָה 1 S 14:46 2 S 20:2, נַעֲלָה 2 S 2:27, לָקַח Am 7:15 1 Ch 17:7, זָנָה Ho 1:2; pregn. Is 30:21 thy ears shall hear a word מֵאַחֲרֶיךָ coming from behind thee, Je 9:21 (sc. נָפַל, see v a) 1 S 13:7 𝔊L We Dr חָֽרְדוּ מֵאַחֲרָיו. (β) denoting position (מן = off, on the side of; see מן) behind Ex 14:19(×2) Jos 8:2, 4, 14 1 K 10:19 Ne 4:7 (מֵאַחֲרֵי לְ) 2 Ch 13:13, b. (γ) of time (rare) †Dt 29:21 Ec 10:14; מֵאַחֲרֵי כֵן †2 S 3:28; 15:1; 2 Ch 32:23. e.g. 1 Chronicles 17:7
- b. †אֶל־אַחֲרֵי 2 S 5:23 2 K 9:18 סֹב אֶל־אַחֲרַי v 19 Zc 6:6. e.g. 2 Samuel 5:23
- c. †עַל־אַחֲרֵי Ez 41:5 beside, at the back of. e.g. Ezekiel 41:5
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. proposes subst. the hinder or following part (cf. the pl.)
I. adj. Pr 28:23 (si vera l.) אָדָם אַחֲרַי a man that turneth backwards (cf. Je 7:24) so Jos Ki De Ol p. 429 (doubtfully) Now Sta§ 301 b: according to Ew§ 200 a Hi an abnormal adv. = afterwards, Lag Pr conj. בְּאָרְחוֹ cf. 𝔊 ὁδούς.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אחר (ʼâchar) (H309) — to delay.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָחַר
- 1. to be behind, v. Pi.
- 2. (euphem.) to cover (of camels). B. Bath. 93ᵃ; Shebu. 34ᵃ; Snh. 37ᵇ (Ms. M. B. Bath. l. c. יהיר). Tosef. B. Kam. III, 6 אוֹחֵיר.
- to tarry, hesitate; to set behind. Pes. IX, 9 אם אֵחַרְתִּי if I should be late. Y. Yoma III, 40ᶜ top א׳ בו מעשה the text orders a later action after it. Y. Ned. X, 42ᵃ; 42ᵇ א׳ בעמידה he tarried in standing, i.e. was the last to sit down. Gen. R. s. 81, beg. א׳ אדם את נדרו if one procrastinates the fulfillment of his vow; a. fr.
- to be postponed, be done late, be placed later. Y. Yoma III, 40ᶜ top בכלל מְאוּחָר היה would belong to things to be done later. Ib. יוּאֲחַר וכ׳ let it be done later than &c.—אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה there is no ‘earlier’ or ‘later’ (no chronological order) in the events or laws of the Scripture. Pes. 6ᵇ; a. e.; Y. Sot. VIII, 22ᵈ מוּאֲחַר.—Shebi. X, 5, a. fr. מאוחר (a document) postdated, opp. מוקדם antedated. B. Mets. V, 10 רבית מְאוּחֶרֶת postpaid interests.
אֲחַר
- 1. to be behind.
- 2. *to cover. Targ. Jer. V, 8 (of steeds, h. text מוזנים; some ed. ד for. ר).
- take ye a later meal (on Sabbaths).
- same. Targ. II Sam. XX, 5; a. fr.—[Targ. Prov. XXIII, 30 מַוְחֲרִין, מְוַוחֲרִין Part. Af. or Pa. of יחר = מוֹחר׳, מאחר׳.]
- , contr. אִתְחַר to be delayed. Targ. Y. I Deut. I, 2; cmp. however ib. v. 6, v. אֲרַח.
אַחַר
- v. foreg.), pl. constr. אַחֲרֵי after, behind. Gen. R. s. 44 wherever the Bible uses the preposition aḥaré סמוך, it means in connection with, אחר מופלג while aḥar means without connection (later on). Yoma 6ᵃ אחר א׳ after ‘after’, i.e. some time after the act, opp. חד אחר one ‘after’, immediately, v. אֶוְתִּיוֹס.—לְאַחֲרָיו, לְאַחֲרֶיהָ, מֵאַחֲרָיו, מֵאַחֲרֶיהָ after it, as concluding, opp. לפניה, לפניו introductory (prayer).—Ber. I, 4 אחת לא׳ one benediction after the Sh’ma. Ib. III, 4 לאחריו (prayer) after meal; a. fr.—כִּלְאַחַר יד as if doing a thing with the back of the hand, i.e. in a manner different from the usual way of doing it. Sabb. 153ᵇ; a. fr.—מֵאַחַר
- 1. (conj. followed by ש־ or ד־) after, since, whereas, because. Ḥull. 29ᵃ מא׳ ששנינו after it has once been stated in the Mishnah … why was it necessary (?) &c. Ib.ᵇ ומאחר דאפי׳ וכ׳ and since it is not even rabbinically unfit, why &c.; a. fr.
- 2. a legal term, meaḥar, the presumption of the truth of one’s statement, because he might have pleaded more profitably, if he had been inclined to lie. Y. Shebu. VI, 36ᵈ bot. אין אומרים בממון מא׳ מאחר וכ׳ in money matters we do not apply the principle of meaḥer, so as to say that because he might have said ‘thou hast not lent me anything’, he may say, ‘thou didst lend me, but I paid half of it’ (and his plea must be accepted without an oath); v. מִיגּוֹ s. v. גּוֹ.—אַחֲרֶיךָ thy successor. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᶜ top יהודה בני א׳ וכ׳ my son Judah shall succeed thee, none else (is worthy). Keth. 95ᵇ my property I bequeath to thee ואַחֲרַיִיךְ לפ׳ and after thee it shall go over to …—אַחַר כָּךְ (abbrev. אח"כ) afterwards, subsequently. Pes. X, 2; a. v. fr.
אַחֵר
- v. foreg. a. [back of,] another, the other, stranger. דבר א׳ (abbr. ד"א)
- 1. another thing, another explanation. Snh. IV, 5; a. v. fr. in Midr.
- 2. euphem. for idolatry, swine &c., v. דָּבָר.
- 3. Aḥer, [apostate,] byname of Elisha ben Abuyah. Ḥag. 14ᵇ; a. e.—Pl. אֲחֵרִים others; 1) freq. in Mishn. for anonymous authorities differing in opinion, א׳ אומרים, v. Hor. 13ᵇ אסיקו לר׳ מאיר א׳ R. Meïr is quoted under the word aḥerim.—2) freq. for strangers, gentiles. Snh. 52ᵇ אשת א׳ the wife of a non-Israelite. B. Mets. 111ᵇ; a. fr.—Fem. אֲחֶרֶת. Yoma I, 1 אשה א׳ a second (additional) wife; a. fr.—Snh. 104ᵃ זאת ועוד א׳ this and something besides (shall happen).
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Forms in the corpus
The 182 distinct written forms H310 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַחֲרֵ֣י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:4 | 71 |
| אַחֲרֵ֥י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:36 | 39 |
| אַחֲרֵ֖י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 6:14 | 37 |
| אַחַ֣ר | Preposition | Esther 3:1 | 18 |
| אַחֲרֵי֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 8:19 | 17 |
| אַחֲרֵי | Preposition | Genesis 41:31 | 16 |
| וְ/אַחֲרֵי | Preposition | Exodus 3:20 | 16 |
| אַחֲרָֽי/ו | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 3:22 | 16 |
| אַחֲרֵ֤י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 31:29 | 14 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי֙ | Preposition | Genesis 5:4 | 14 |
| אַחֲרָ֖י/ו | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 6:12 | 13 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם | Preposition | Amos 2:4 | 12 |
| וְ/אַחַ֖ר | Adverb | Genesis 30:21 | 11 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי | Preposition | Genesis 6:4 | 11 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 11:30 | 11 |
| אַחֲרֵ֛י | Preposition | Daniel 8:1 | 11 |
| אַחֲרֵ֨י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 13:2 | 11 |
| אַחֲרָ֔י/ו | Preposition | Genesis 18:19 | 10 |
| מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֣י | Preposition | 1 Samuel 12:20 | 10 |
| אַחֲרֶ֑י/ךָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:40 | 8 |
| אַחֲרָ֑י/ו | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:37 | 8 |
| אַחַ֖ר | Preposition | Amos 7:1 | 8 |
| אַחַר֙ | Preposition | Esther 2:1 | 8 |
| וְ/אַחֲרֵ֣י | Preposition | 1 Chronicles 10:2 | 8 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם | Preposition | Exodus 14:17 | 7 |
| אַחֲרַ֔/י | Preposition | Ezekiel 3:12 | 7 |
| אַחֲרָ֣י/ו | Preposition | Ezekiel 10:11 | 7 |
| וְ/אַחַ֣ר | Preposition | 1 Kings 19:12 | 6 |
| מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֖י | Preposition | Amos 7:15 | 6 |
| וְ/אַחַ֥ר | Adverb | Job 18:2 | 5 |
| אַ֠חֲרֵי | Preposition | 2 Samuel 19:30 | 5 |
| אַֽחֲרָי/ו֙ | Preposition | 2 Kings 2:24 | 5 |
| אַחֲרֵ֧י | Preposition | Hosea 11:10 | 5 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 10:15 | 5 |
| אַחֲרֶ֔י/ךָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 12:25 | 5 |
| אַחֲרָֽ/י | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 2:18 | 5 |
| אַחַ֥ר | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 12:2 | 5 |
| וְ/אַחֲרֵ֥י | Preposition | Ezekiel 20:30 | 5 |
| וְ/אַחֲרָ֖י/ו | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 9:3 | 5 |
| וְ/אַחַ֗ר | Adverb | Exodus 5:1 | 5 |
| מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֥י | Preposition | 2 Samuel 2:26 | 5 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי | Preposition | Exodus 11:1 | 4 |
| וְ/אַחַר֙ | Adverb | Genesis 38:30 | 4 |
| אַחֲרֵ֕י | Preposition | Jeremiah 3:17 | 4 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֖ם | Preposition | Exodus 14:28 | 4 |
| אַחֲרֶ֖י/ךָ | Preposition | Genesis 35:12 | 4 |
| אַחֲרָ֑/י | Preposition | 1 Kings 1:17 | 4 |
| וְ/אַחֲרָ֛י/ו | Preposition | 1 Chronicles 11:12 | 4 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם | Preposition | Jeremiah 8:2 | 3 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶם֙ | Preposition | Jeremiah 9:16 | 3 |
| אַֽחֲרָ֔י/ו | Preposition | 1 Samuel 24:8 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 12:30 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ן | Preposition | Genesis 41:19 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶם֙ | Preposition | 1 Kings 9:21 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶ֖י/הָ | Preposition | 2 Chronicles 23:14 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶ֨י/ךָ֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 12:28 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶֽי/הָ | Preposition | 2 Kings 4:30 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶֽי/ךָ | Preposition | Genesis 17:7 | 3 |
| אַחֲרָ֗י/ו | Preposition | 1 Kings 1:35 | 3 |
| אַחֲרָ֛י/ו | Preposition | 1 Samuel 17:35 | 3 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 122 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H310, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 623 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 664 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 5:4
- Exodus 3:1
- Leviticus 13:7
- Numbers 3:23
- Deuteronomy 1:4
- Joshua 1:1
- Judges 1:1
- Ruth 1:15
- 1 Samuel 1:9
- 2 Samuel 1:1
- 1 Kings 1:6
- 2 Kings 1:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
