אַחֲרִית
latter end
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H319 appears in the Book of Proverbs — 13 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.
Proverbs
- Proverbs 5:4 וְֽ֭/אַחֲרִיתָ/הּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword.
- Proverbs 5:11 בְ/אַחֲרִיתֶ֑/ךָ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms You will groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
- Proverbs 14:12 וְ֝/אַחֲרִיתָ֗/הּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
- Proverbs 14:13 וְ/אַחֲרִיתָ֖/הּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, And mirth may end in heaviness.
- Proverbs 16:25 וְ֝/אַחֲרִיתָ֗/הּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
- Proverbs 19:20 בְּ/אַחֲרִיתֶֽ/ךָ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter end.
- Proverbs 20:21 וְ֝/אַחֲרִיתָ֗/הּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, Won't be blessed in the end.
- Proverbs 23:18 אַחֲרִ֑ית n c fs Indeed surely there is a future hope, And your hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 23:32 אַ֭חֲרִית/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.
- Proverbs 24:14 אַחֲרִ֑ית n c fs So you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; If you have found it, then there will be a reward, Your hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 24:20 אַחֲרִ֣ית n c fs For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
- Proverbs 25:8 בְּ/אַחֲרִיתָ֑/הּ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
- Proverbs 29:21 וְ֝/אַחֲרִית֗/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
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.
אחרית — transliterated ʼachărîyth — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “latter end.” It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 60 verses — moderately common. It first appears in Genesis 49:1. Related forms include אחר, אחר and אחרח. 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 H319 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 →
- 60
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 60 distinct verses.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #629
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 629 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 60 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Proverbs 13 verses 22%
- Jeremiah 10 verses 17%
- Deuteronomy 6 verses 10%
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 60 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 28 verses · 47%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 22 verses · 37%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 17%
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).
- King James Version: End 17×, Latter 8×, Latter end 7×
- American Standard Version: End 11×, Latter 10×, Latter end 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: End 18×, Future 6×, Latter 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: End 21×, End of 5×, Future 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H319 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 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 H319 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 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 H319 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H319 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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 4 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.
- a. of place, only ψ 139:9 (late) א׳ יָם. e.g. Psalms 139:9
- b. of time, latter part or actual close (according to context), opp. רֵאשִׁית;—of year Dt 11:12; of a man’s life Nu 23:10 Pr 5:11 Jb 8:7; 42:12; of a people’s existence Nu 24:20; = final lot Dt 32:20, 29 Je 12:4; 31:17 ψ 73:17; a future, i.e. a happy close of life, suggesting sometimes the idea of a posterity, promised to the righteous Pr 23:18 (‖ תִּקְוָה hope) 24:14 Je 29:11 (לָתֵת לָכֶם א׳ וְתִקְוָה), withheld from the wicked Pr 24:20 (‖ נֵר יִדְעָֽךְ׃: v. infr.); the end or ultimate issue of a course of action Je 5:31 Pr 14:12; 23:32 (of wine, i.e. of indulgence in it) 25:8 Is 46:10 (absol., but implicitly of a phase of history) 47:7 (of the conduct described v 6 b–7 a) Dn 12:8; Ec 7:8; of a prediction = the event Is 41:22. בְּאַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים in the end of the days, a prophetic phrase denoting the final period of the history so far as the speaker’s perspective reaches; the sense thus varies with the context, but it often = the ideal or Messianic future; †Gn 49:1 (of the period of Israel’s possession of Canaan) Nu 24:14; Dt 4:30 (of the period of Israel’s return to God after adversity) 31:29 (of the period of Israel’s rebellion) Ho 3:5; Is 2:2 (= Mi 4:1) Je 23:20 (v. Graf) = 30:24; 48:47; 49:39; Ez 38:16 (of the period of Gog’s attack upon restored Israel) Dn 2:28 (Aramaic) 10:14 (of the age of Antiochus Epiphanes): cf. בַּא׳ הַשָּׁנִים Ez 38:8. e.g. Deuteronomy 11:12
- c. א׳ הַגּוֹיִם Je 50:12 the last, hindermost of the nations (of Babylon), opp. ראשׁית הגוים Am 6:1 (Israel) cf. Nu 24:20 (Amalek) chief of the nations. e.g. Jeremiah 50:12
- d. concr. posterity (extension of usage noted above in Pr 24:20) ψ 37:37, 38 (possibly not more than ‘a future’ in v 37) 109:13 (‖ בְּדוֹר אַחֵר יִמַּח שְׁמָם) Am 4:2; 9:1 Ez 23:25(×2) (acc. to others, in these four passages, remnant, residue) Dn 11:4. e.g. Proverbs 24:20
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
n.f. after-part, end;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אחר (ʼachar) (H310) — after.
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.
אַחֲרִית
- (b. h.) future, end. Y. Meg. III, 74ᵃ bot.
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 37 distinct written forms H319 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H319, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — 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 54 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 60 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 49:1
- Numbers 23:10
- Deuteronomy 4:30
- Job 8:7
- Psalms 73:17
- Proverbs 5:4
- Ecclesiastes 7:8
- Isaiah 2:2
- Jeremiah 5:31
- Lamentations 1:9
- Ezekiel 23:25
- Daniel 8:19
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.
