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אַחַר

a.charafterHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentAdjective715 occurrences31 books664 verses

Definition

from H309; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
Traditional renderings: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אַחַר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

715 total
  1. Jeremiah 32:18אַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם · after them
    You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
  2. Jeremiah 32:39אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃ · after them
    I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
  3. Jeremiah 32:40מֵאַ֣חֲרֵיהֶ֔ם · from
    I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
  4. Jeremiah 34:8אַחֲרֵ֡י · After
    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
  5. Jeremiah 34:11אַחֲרֵי־ · but later
    …but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
  6. Jeremiah 35:15אַחֲרֵ֨י
    Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
  7. Jeremiah 36:27אַחֲרֵ֣י׀ · After
    After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  8. Jeremiah 39:5אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ם · them
    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
  9. Jeremiah 40:1אַחַ֣ר׀ · after
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
  10. Jeremiah 41:16אַחַ֣ר · after
    Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.
  11. Jeremiah 42:16אַחֲרֵיכֶ֛ם
    …then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
  12. Jeremiah 46:26וְאַחֲרֵי־ · But after
    I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 48:2אַחֲרַ֖יִךְ · will pursue
    There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
  14. Jeremiah 49:6וְאַחֲרֵי־ · Yet afterward
    Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
  15. Jeremiah 49:37אַֽחֲרֵיהֶם֙ · after them
    So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
  16. Jeremiah 50:21אַֽחֲרֵיהֶם֙
    Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 51:46וְאַחֲרָ֤יו · and then
    Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.
  18. Jeremiah 52:8אַחֲרֵ֣י
    …but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
  19. Ezekiel 3:12אַחֲרַ֔י · behind me
    Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!”
  20. Ezekiel 5:2אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃ · behind them
    When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
  21. Ezekiel 5:12אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃ · behind them
    A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
  22. Ezekiel 6:9אַחֲרֵ֖י · after
    Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
  23. Ezekiel 9:5אַחֲרָ֖יו
    And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
  24. Ezekiel 10:11אַחֲרָ֣יו · in that direction
    When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.
  25. Ezekiel 12:14אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃ · to chase after them
    And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
  26. Ezekiel 13:3אַחַ֥ר
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit yet have seen nothing.
  27. Ezekiel 14:7מֵֽאַחֲרַ֗י · from Me
    For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.
  28. Ezekiel 14:11מֵאַֽחֲרַ֔י · from Me
    …in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”
  29. Ezekiel 16:23אַחֲרֵ֖י · in addition to
    Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And in addition to all your other wickedness,
  30. Ezekiel 16:34וְאַחֲרַ֖יִךְ · solicited
    So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!
  31. Ezekiel 20:16אַחֲרֵ֥י · after
    …because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
  32. Ezekiel 20:24וְאַחֲרֵי֙
    For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
  33. Ezekiel 20:30וְאַחֲרֵ֥י · with
    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
  34. Ezekiel 20:39וְאַחַ֕ר · But afterward
    And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
  35. Ezekiel 23:30אַחֲרֵ֣י · with
    …have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
  36. Ezekiel 23:35אַחֲרֵ֣י · behind
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
  37. Ezekiel 29:16אַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם · to the Egyptians
    Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
  38. Ezekiel 33:31אַחֲרֵ֥י
    So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
  39. Ezekiel 40:1אַחַ֕ר · after
    In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
  40. Ezekiel 41:15אַחֲרֶ֧יהָ · the rear [of the temple]
    Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
  41. Ezekiel 44:10אַחֲרֵ֖י · after
    Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
  42. Ezekiel 44:26וְאַחֲרֵ֖י · and after
    …and after he is cleansed, he must count off seven days for himself.
  43. Ezekiel 46:12אַחֲרֵ֥י · after
    When the prince makes a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.
  44. Daniel 8:1אַחֲרֵ֛י · subsequent
    In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, subsequent to the one that had appeared to me earlier.
  45. Daniel 9:26וְאַחֲרֵ֤י · Then after
    Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
  46. Hosea 1:2מֵֽאַחֲרֵ֖י · [by departing] from
    When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
  47. Hosea 2:5אַחֲרֵ֤י · after
    For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
  48. Hosea 2:13אַחֲרֵ֣י · after
    I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
  49. Hosea 3:5אַחַ֗ר · Afterward
    Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
  50. Hosea 5:8אַחֲרֶ֖יךָ · Lead on
    Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!