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אַחֵר

other

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H312 Strong's Hebrew
ʼachêr Transliteration
/akh-air'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 166 appearances

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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.

“other” is the headline sense of the Hebrew adjective אחר (ʼachêr). Scripture first uses it in Genesis 4:25. It appears 161 verses across 28 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. Not a single-sense word, it carries 3 senses, among them “another” and “following”. It shares a root with אחר, אחר and אחרון. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
other man
Modern gloss
other
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H312 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 →

161
distinct verses
The word appears in 161 distinct verses.
28 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 28 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 4:25
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 4:25.
Zechariah 2:3
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zechariah 2:3.
#276
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 276 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 161 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 52 · 32%
  • Historical 57 · 35%
  • Wisdom 12 · 7%
  • Prophets 40 · 25%

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 161 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 76 verses · 47%
  • Torah (Pentateuch) 52 verses · 32%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 33 verses · 20%

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: Other 89×, Another 44×, Others 7×
  • American Standard Version: Other 79×, Another 40×, Others 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Other 78×, Another 44×, Others 10×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Other 84×, Another 54×, Others 8×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H312 across 166 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Other” 89×
  • “Another” 44×
  • “Others” 7×
  • “Let another” 2×
  • “Next” 2×

Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H312 across 166 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Other” 79×
  • “Another” 40×
  • “Others” 5×
  • “Have burned incense unto other” 3×
  • “Behold seven other” 2×
  • “Let another” 2×
  • “Served other” 2×
  • “Thou shalt have no other” 2×

Plus 31 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 H312 across 164 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Other” 78×
  • “Another” 44×
  • “Others” 10×
  • “Different” 4×
  • “More” 4×
  • “Next” 4×
  • “Any other” 3×
  • “May another” 2×

Plus 15 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 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H312 across 163 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Other” 84×
  • “Another” 54×
  • “Others” 8×
  • “Next” 3×
  • “And” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in BDB

The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. another, other, following
  2. following, further
  3. other, different

Word origin

I. adj. another (proposes one coming behind), f. אַחֶ֑רֶת Ez 41:24 (dag. f. implic.); pl. אֲחֵרִים (as if from sg. אָחֵר), once Jb 31:10 אֲחֵרִין, אֲחֵרוֹת ( = Arabic آخَرُ, Sab. אאחֿר, Assyrian aḫrû future, fpl. as subst. aḫrât ûmê future of days) Gn 4:25 זֶרַע אַחֵר another seed 8:10 שִׁבְעַת יָמִים אֲחֵרִים seven other days Ex 22:4 בִּשְׂדֵה אַחֵר in the field of another + often; אִישׁ אַחֵר another man (husband) Gn 29:19 Dt 24:2 Je 3:1; חָצֵר הָאַחֶרֶת 1 K 7:8 the other court, v. חָצֵר; הַחוֹמָה א׳ 2 Ch 32:5 the other wall, v. חוֹמָה. Appended to a n.pr. for distinction Ezr 2:31 = Ne 7:34 (see v 7 = Ne v 12) Ne 7:33 (prob. here textual error, v. BeRy 18: not in Ezr 2:29). Often with the collat. sense of different, as בְּגָדִים א׳ other garments Lv 6:4 1 S 28:8 Ez 42:14; 44:19; עָפָר, אֲבָנִים Lv 14:42; רוּחַ Nu 14:24; וְנֶהְפַּכְתָּ֫ לְאִישׁ אַ׳ 1 S 10:6; לֵב v 9 Ez 11:19 (𝔊 Hi Sm); שֵׁם Is 65:15 (cf. 62:2 חָדָשׁ); with that of strange, alien, as אִישׁ אַ׳ Dt 20:5, 6, 7; 28:30 (so אַחֵר, אֲחֵרִים alone ψ 109:8 Jb 31:8, 10 Is 65:22 Je 6:12; 8:10 al.); עַם Dt 28:32; אֶרֶץ 29:27 Je 22:26; אִשָּׁה Ju 11:2; לָשׁוֹן Is 28:11 (‖ בְּלַעֲגֵי שָׂפָה); especially in the phrase אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים other gods (63 times) Ex 20:3 (= Dt 5:7) 23:13 (both JE) Jos 24:2, 16 (E) 1 S 26:19 Ho 3:1, & particularly in Dt (6:14; 8:19 + 15 times) & Deut. writers, as Jos 23:16 Ju 2:12, 17, 19 Je (18 times) & compiler of Kings; אֵל אַחֵר once Ex 34:14 (JE). So אַחֵר alone Is 42:8 ψ 16:4. †Of time, following, next (rare) בַּשָּׁנָה הָאַ׳ Gn 17:21 (P) in the next year; 2 K 6:29 בַּיּוֹם הָאַ׳; דּוֹר אַ׳ Joel 1:3 ψ 109:13 poet. the next generation (Ju 2:10 in prose = another generation).

II. n.pr.m. 1 Ch 7:12 (ident. & meaning quite dub.; Be thinks = אַחֵר adj. another, to avoid naming Dan (cf. Gn 46:23 Nu 26:42) on account of the narrative Ju 17f. Öt identifies with שַׁחֲרַיִם 8:8).

— 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.

Part of speech: Adjective TWOT: 68a


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).

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 48 distinct written forms H312 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
אֲחֵרִ֔ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 8:19 29
אֲחֵרִ֑ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 6:14 14
אֲחֵרִ֖ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Daniel 12:5 12
אַחֵ֔ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Esther 4:14 11
אֲחֵרִֽים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 31:18 10
אַחֵ֑ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 22:5 9
אַחֵֽר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Deuteronomy 24:2 9
אַחֵ֖ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Deuteronomy 20:5 6
אֲחֵרִים֙ Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 31:20 5
אַחֵר֙ Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Deuteronomy 28:30 4
אַחֶ֔רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Genesis 26:21 4
אַחֶ֖רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Deuteronomy 29:28 3
וְ/אַחֵ֣ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Isaiah 65:22 3
אֲחֵרִ֗ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 28:64 2
אֲחֵרִ֛ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 13:2 2
אֲחֵרֽוֹת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Genesis 29:27 2
אַחֵ֛ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Genesis 43:22 2
אַחֵ֣ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 Samuel 18:26 2
אַחֶ֑רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Isaiah 28:11 2
אַחֶ֛רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 Chronicles 2:26 2
הָ/אַחֵֽר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 Chronicles 3:11 2
הָ/אַחֶ֗רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 40:40 2
הָ/אַחֶ֨רֶת֙ Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 Chronicles 3:11 2
לְ/אַחֵ֣ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Isaiah 42:8 2
לַ/אֲחֵרִ֣ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Proverbs 5:9 2
אֲחֵר֔וֹת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Leviticus 14:42 1
אֲחֵר֗וֹת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Genesis 41:3 1
אֲחֵרִ֣ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Job 34:24 1
אֲחֵרִ֤ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 Kings 14:9 1
אֲחֵרִֽין Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Job 31:10 1
אֲחֵרוֹת֙ Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Genesis 41:19 1
אַ֝חֵ֗ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Psalms 109:13 1
אַחֵ֗ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Jeremiah 3:1 1
אַחֵ֜ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Judges 2:10 1
אַחֵ֥ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Job 8:19 1
אַחֵ֪ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Psalms 16:4 1
אַחֶ֗רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Jeremiah 36:32 1
אַחֶ֨רֶת֙ Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Numbers 14:24 1
הָ/אַחֵ֗ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 Kings 6:29 1
הָ/אַחֶ֜רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 Kings 3:22 1
הָ/אַחֶֽרֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Genesis 17:21 1
וְ/לַ/אֲחֵרִ֖ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Daniel 11:4 1
לְ/אַחֵ֥ר Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Isaiah 48:11 1
לַ/אֲחֵרִ֔ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Jeremiah 6:12 1
לַ/אֲחֵרִ֗ים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Jeremiah 8:10 1
לַ/אֲחֵרִֽים Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Nehemiah 5:5 1
לָ/אַחֶֽרֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 41:24 1
מֵ/אַחֶ֛רֶת Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 Samuel 13:16 1

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