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.
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
Occurrences
715 total
- Hosea 5:11אַחֲרֵי־Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.
- Hosea 11:10אַחֲרֵ֧י · They will walk afterThey will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
- Joel 2:2וְאַֽחֲרָיו֙…a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
- Joel 2:3וְאַחֲרָ֖יו · and behind them; וְאַֽחֲרָיו֙ · but behind themBefore them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- Joel 2:14אַֽחֲרָיו֙ · behind HimWho knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
- Joel 2:28אַֽחֲרֵי־ · afterwardAnd afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- Amos 2:4אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
- Amos 7:1אַחַ֖ר · just afterThis is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
- Amos 7:15מֵאַחֲרֵ֖י · from followingBut the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
- Zephaniah 1:6מֵאַחֲרֵ֣י · from [following]…and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
- Zechariah 1:8וְאַחֲרָיו֙ · and behind himI looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
- Zechariah 2:8אַחַ֣רFor this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
- Zechariah 6:6אַֽחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם · [the west]The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
- Zechariah 7:14אַֽחֲרֵיהֶ֔ם · behind themBut I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”