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).
Grammatical forms
- Preposition 682 times (95%)
- Adverb 35 times (5%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 718 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 1 of 4 — showing verses 1–200 of 664 distinct verses where H310 appears, across 31 books. 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.
Genesis 83 verses
- Genesis 5:4 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:7 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:10 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:13 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:16 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:19 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:22 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:26 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:30 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 6:4 אַֽחֲרֵי prep The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 9:9 אַֽחֲרֵי/כֶֽם prep + sfx pers 2mp "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- Genesis 9:28 אַחַ֣ר prep Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 10:1 אַחַ֥ר prep Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- Genesis 10:18 וְ/אַחַ֣ר conj + adv the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
- Genesis 10:32 אַחַ֥ר prep These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Genesis 11:10 אַחַ֥ר prep This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:11 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:13 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:15 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:17 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:19 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:21 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:23 אַחֲרֵ֛י prep Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:25 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 13:14 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- Genesis 14:17 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (the same is the King's Valley).
- Genesis 15:1 אַחַ֣ר prep After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
- Genesis 15:14 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
- Genesis 16:13 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
- Genesis 17:7 אַחֲרֶ֛י/ךָ אַחֲרֶֽי/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms prep + sfx pers 2ms I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
- Genesis 17:8 אַחֲרֶ֜י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
- Genesis 17:9 אַֽחֲרֶ֖י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
- Genesis 17:10 אַחֲרֶ֑י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
- Genesis 17:19 אַחֲרָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
- Genesis 18:5 אַחַ֣ר prep I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
- Genesis 18:10 אַחֲרָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 18:12 אַחֲרֵ֤י prep Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
- Genesis 18:19 אַחֲרָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 19:6 אַחֲרָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
- Genesis 19:17 אַחֲרֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
- Genesis 19:26 מֵ/אַחֲרָ֑י/ו prep + prep + sfx pers 3ms But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
- Genesis 22:1 אַחַר֙ prep It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
- Genesis 22:13 אַחַ֕ר prep Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
- Genesis 22:20 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
- Genesis 23:19 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 24:5 אַחֲרַ֖/י prep + sfx pers 1cs The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
- Genesis 24:8 אַחֲרֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
- Genesis 24:36 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
- Genesis 24:39 אַחֲרָֽ/י prep + sfx pers 1cs I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'
- Genesis 24:55 אַחַ֖ר prep Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
- Genesis 24:61 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
- Genesis 24:67 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
- Genesis 25:11 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep It happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
- Genesis 25:26 וְ/אַֽחֲרֵי conj + prep After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
- Genesis 26:18 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Genesis 30:21 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
- Genesis 31:23 אַחֲרָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:36 אַחֲרָֽ/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
- Genesis 32:18 אַחֲרֵֽי/נוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
- Genesis 32:19 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
- Genesis 32:20 אַחֲרֵ֑י/נוּ וְ/אַחֲרֵי prep + sfx pers 1cp conj + prep You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
- Genesis 33:7 וְ/אַחַ֗ר conj + adv Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
- Genesis 35:5 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep They traveled: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
- Genesis 35:12 אַחֲרֶ֖י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
- Genesis 37:17 אַחַ֣ר prep The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
- Genesis 38:30 וְ/אַחַר֙ conj + adv Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
- Genesis 39:7 אַחַר֙ prep It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
- Genesis 40:1 אַחַר֙ prep It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:3 אַחֲרֵי/הֶן֙ prep + sfx pers 3fp Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
- Genesis 41:6 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽן prep + sfx pers 3fp Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
- Genesis 41:19 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ן prep + sfx pers 3fp and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
- Genesis 41:23 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp and, behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
- Genesis 41:27 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ן prep + sfx pers 3fp The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
- Genesis 41:30 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ן prep + sfx pers 3fp There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
- Genesis 41:31 אַחֲרֵי prep and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
- Genesis 41:39 אַחֲרֵ֨י prep Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
- Genesis 44:4 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
- Genesis 45:15 וְ/אַ֣חֲרֵי conj + prep He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
- Genesis 46:30 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
- Genesis 48:1 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Genesis 48:4 אַחֲרֶ֖י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
- Genesis 48:6 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֖ם prep + sfx pers 3mp Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
- Genesis 50:14 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Exodus 25 verses
- Exodus 3:1 אַחַ֣ר prep Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
- Exodus 3:20 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will let you go.
- Exodus 5:1 וְ/אַחַ֗ר conj + adv Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
- Exodus 7:25 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.
- Exodus 10:14 וְ/אַחֲרָ֖י/ו conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
- Exodus 11:1 אַֽחֲרֵי prep Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
- Exodus 11:5 אַחַ֣ר prep and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- Exodus 11:8 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
- Exodus 14:4 אַחֲרֵי/הֶם֒ prep + sfx pers 3mp I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.
- Exodus 14:8 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
- Exodus 14:9 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ם prep + sfx pers 3mp The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
- Exodus 14:10 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ם prep + sfx pers 3mp When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
- Exodus 14:17 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 3mp I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:19 מֵ/אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם מֵ/אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + prep + sfx pers 3mp prep + prep + sfx pers 3mp The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
- Exodus 14:23 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם prep + sfx pers 3mp The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:28 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֖ם prep + sfx pers 3mp The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- Exodus 15:20 אַחֲרֶ֔י/הָ prep + sfx pers 3fs Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
- Exodus 18:2 אַחַ֖ר prep Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
- Exodus 23:2 אַחֲרֵֽי אַחֲרֵ֥י prep prep You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
- Exodus 28:43 אַחֲרָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
- Exodus 29:29 אַחֲרָ֑י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
- Exodus 33:8 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
- Exodus 34:15 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
- Exodus 34:16 אַחֲרֵי֙ אַחֲרֵ֖י prep prep and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
- Exodus 34:32 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
Leviticus 22 verses
- Leviticus 13:7 אַחֲרֵ֧י prep But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
- Leviticus 13:35 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
- Leviticus 13:55 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.
- Leviticus 13:56 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep If the priest looks, and, behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
- Leviticus 14:8 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
- Leviticus 14:19 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv "The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
- Leviticus 14:36 וְ/אַ֥חַר conj + adv The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
- Leviticus 14:43 אַחַ֖ר וְ/אַחֲרֵ֛י וְ/אַחֲרֵ֥י prep conj + prep conj + prep "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
- Leviticus 14:48 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and, behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
- Leviticus 15:28 וְ/אַחַ֥ר conj + adv "'But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
- Leviticus 16:1 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Yahweh, and died;
- Leviticus 16:26 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep "He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
- Leviticus 16:28 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
- Leviticus 17:7 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 3mp They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'
- Leviticus 20:5 אַחֲרָ֗י/ו אַחֲרֵ֥י prep + sfx pers 3ms prep then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:6 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 3mp "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 22:7 וְ/אַחַר֙ conj + adv When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
- Leviticus 25:15 אַחַ֣ר prep According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
- Leviticus 25:46 אַחֲרֵי/כֶם֙ prep + sfx pers 2mp You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
- Leviticus 25:48 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
- Leviticus 26:33 אַחֲרֵי/כֶ֖ם prep + sfx pers 2mp I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
- Leviticus 27:18 אַחַ֣ר prep But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
Numbers 27 verses
- Numbers 3:23 אַחֲרֵ֧י prep The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
- Numbers 4:15 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 5:26 וְ/אַחַ֛ר conj + adv The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
- Numbers 6:19 אַחַ֖ר prep The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation;
- Numbers 6:20 וְ/אַחַ֛ר conj + adv and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
- Numbers 7:88 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.
- Numbers 8:15 וְ/אַֽחֲרֵי conj + prep "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
- Numbers 8:22 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
- Numbers 9:17 וְ/אַ֣חֲרֵי conj + prep Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
- Numbers 12:14 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
- Numbers 12:16 וְ/אַחַ֛ר conj + adv Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 14:24 אַחֲרָ֑/י prep + sfx pers 1cs but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
- Numbers 14:43 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֣י prep + prep For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.
- Numbers 15:39 אַחֲרֵ֤י וְ/אַחֲרֵ֣י אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep conj + prep prep + sfx pers 3mp and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
- Numbers 16:25 אַחֲרָ֖י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
- Numbers 19:7 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
- Numbers 25:8 אַחַ֨ר prep and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
- Numbers 25:13 אַחֲרָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
- Numbers 26:1 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
- Numbers 30:15 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
- Numbers 31:2 אַחַ֖ר prep Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people.
- Numbers 31:24 וְ/אַחַ֖ר conj + adv You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
- Numbers 32:11 אַחֲרָֽ/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
- Numbers 32:12 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh.
- Numbers 32:15 מֵֽ/אַחֲרָ֔י/ו prep + prep + sfx pers 3ms For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.
- Numbers 32:22 וְ/אַחַ֣ר conj + adv and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.
- Numbers 35:28 וְ/אַחֲרֵ֥י conj + prep because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Deuteronomy 30 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:4 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
- Deuteronomy 1:8 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
- Deuteronomy 1:36 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 4:3 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 4:37 אַחֲרָ֑י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 4:40 אַחֲרֶ֑י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
- Deuteronomy 6:14 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
- Deuteronomy 7:4 מֵֽ/אַחֲרַ֔/י prep + prep + sfx pers 1cs For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
- Deuteronomy 8:19 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
- Deuteronomy 10:15 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ם prep + sfx pers 3mp Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 11:4 אַחֲרֵי/כֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 2mp and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
- Deuteronomy 11:28 אַחֲרֵ֛י prep and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 11:30 אַֽחֲרֵי֙ prep Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
- Deuteronomy 12:25 אַחֲרֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 12:28 אַחֲרֶ֨י/ךָ֙ prep + sfx pers 2ms Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:30 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם אַחֲרֵ֖י prep + sfx pers 3mp prep take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
- Deuteronomy 13:2 אַחֲרֵ֨י prep and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
- Deuteronomy 13:4 אַחֲרֵ֨י prep You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
- Deuteronomy 21:13 וְ/אַ֨חַר conj + prep and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 23:14 מֵ/אַחֲרֶֽי/ךָ prep + prep + sfx pers 2ms for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
- Deuteronomy 24:4 אַחֲרֵי֙ prep her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 24:20 אַחֲרֶ֑י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:21 אַחֲרֶ֑י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 25:18 אַֽחַרֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.
- Deuteronomy 28:14 אַחֲרֵ֛י prep and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 מֵ/אַ֣חֲרֵי/כֶ֔ם prep + prep + sfx pers 2mp The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
- Deuteronomy 31:16 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- Deuteronomy 31:27 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
- Deuteronomy 31:29 אַחֲרֵ֤י prep For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Joshua 36 verses
- 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.
About this entry
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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
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
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.
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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.
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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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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.
