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Lexicon :: Strong's H310 - 'aḥar

Aa
אַחַר
Transliteration
'aḥar
Pronunciation
akh-ar'
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Part of Speech
feminine adjective, adverb, preposition
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 68b, 68c

Strong’s Definitions

אַחַר ʼachar, akh-ar'; from H309; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses):—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.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 709x

The KJV translates Strong's H310 in the following manner: after (454x), follow (78x), afterward(s) (46x), behind (44x), miscellaneous (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 709x
The KJV translates Strong's H310 in the following manner: after (454x), follow (78x), afterward(s) (46x), behind (44x), miscellaneous (87x).
  1. after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time)

    1. as an adverb

      1. behind (of place)

      2. afterwards (of time)

    2. as a preposition

      1. behind, after (of place)

      2. after (of time)

      3. besides

    3. as a conjunction

      1. after that

    4. as a substantive

      1. hinder part

    5. with other prepositions

      1. from behind

      2. from following after

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַחַר ʼachar, akh-ar'; from H309; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses):—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.
STRONGS H310: Abbreviations
אַחַר properly substantive the hinder or following part (compare the plural)
1. adverb
a. of place, behind, twice Genesis 22:13 (many MSS. Samaritan Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Ol Ew read אֶחָד see Di) Psalm 68:26 [Psalm 68:25].
b. of time, afterwards Genesis 10:18; Genesis 18:5; Genesis 24:55; Genesis 30:21; Judges 19:5 +; וְאַחַר in laws of P, as Leviticus 14:8, Leviticus 14:19; Leviticus 15:28; Leviticus 22:7; Numbers 5:26 and elsewhere.
2. preposition
a. of place, behind, after Exodus 3:1; Exodus 11:5; 2 Kings 11:6; Songs 2:9; Isaiah 57:8; הָלַח אַחַר to go after, follow Genesis 37:17; 2 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:3; Isaiah 65:2; Ezekiel 13:3; Job 31:7; חָיָה אַחַר 1 Samuel 12:14; מֵאַחַר from after 2 Samuel 7:8; Psalm 78:71; Isaiah 59:13.
b. of time, after Genesis 9:28; Leviticus 25:15 al. [and elsewhere]; הָאֵלֶּה אַחַר הַדְּבָרִים after these things Genesis 15:1; Genesis 22:1; Genesis 39:7; Genesis 40:1; 1 Kings 17:17; 1 Kings 21:1; Ezra 7:1; Esther 2:1; Esther 3:1; אַחַר כֵּן Leviticus 14:36; Deuteronomy 21:13; 1 Samuel 10:5; אַחַר זֶה (late) 2 Chronicles 32:9; followed by infinitive Numbers 6:19; Jeremiah 40:1; 1 Chronicles 2:24; Job 21:3; עַד אַחַר till after Nehemiah 13:19.
c. Nehemiah 5:15 strangely: Ew RV besides; but text probably corrupt, see Be Ry.
3.conjunction אַחַר אֲשֶׁר after that Ezekiel 40:1; and without אשׁר Leviticus 14:43; Jeremiah 41:16; Job 42:7. As preposition & conjunction the plural אַחֲרֵי is much more frequently, which in any case must be used before suffixes.
Plural only construct אַחֲרֵי with suffix אַחֲרַי, ָאַחֲרֶיך, etc.
1. substantive hinder part 2 Samuel 2:23 בְּאַחֲרֵי הַחֲנִית with the hinder end of the spear.
2. preposition
a. of place, behind, after Genesis 18:10 וְהוּא אַחֲרָיו and it behind him Deuteronomy 11:30; Judges 5:14; 1 Samuel 14:13; 1 Samuel 21:10 [1 Samuel 21:9] ; Hosea 5:8 ָאַחֲרֶיך Behind thee! (sc. Look or The foe is); with a verb as הִבִּיט to look Genesis 19:17; 1 Samuel 24:9 [1 Samuel 24:8], ׁהֵנִיעַ ראֹש to shake the head 2 Kings 19:21 (= Isaiah 37:22), especially verbs expressing or implying motion, as בָּא to enter in (see Dr 2 Samuel 20:14) בִּעֵר, דָּבֵק, דָּלַק, הָיָה, הָלַח, מִלֵּא, פָּנָה, רָדַף, הִשְׁלִיח (see these words).
b. of time, after Genesis 9:9 זַרְעֲכֶם אַחֲרֵיכֶם your seed after you; similarly Genesis 17:7-10, Genesis 17:19; Genesis 35:12; Genesis 48:4; Exodus 28:43; Numbers 25:13 all P (also Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 4:37; Deuteronomy 10:15; 1 Samuel 24:22 [1 Samuel 24:21]; 2 Samuel 7:12 ||), & with בָּנָיו Genesis 18:19 J (+ ֺבֵּיתו) Exodus 29:29 P Leviticus 25:46 H [Code of Holiness] Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 12:25, Deuteronomy 12:28; Jeremiah 32:18, Jeremiah 32:39; 1 Chronicles 28:8; Proverbs 20:7, ּדּוֺרוֺתֵינו Joshua 22:27, ֺבֵּיתו Job 21:21; Exodus 10:14; Judges 10:3 etc.; with infinitive Genesis 5:4 ֺאַחֲרֵי הוֺלִידֹו after his begetting Sheth, Genesis 13:14; Genesis 14:17; Genesis 18:12; Genesis 25:11 + often; אַחֲרֵי־כֵן afterwards Genesis 6:4 (אחרי כן אשׁר = afterwards, when, compare 2 Chronicles 35:20) Genesis 15:14; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 25:26; Genesis 32:21 [Genesis 32:20]; Genesis 41:31; Genesis 45:15 etc.; ויהי אחרי־כן as a formula of transition chiefly in 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 2:1; 2 Samuel 8:1 || 2 Samuel 10:1 || 2 Samuel 13:1; 2 Samuel 21:18 ||) compare 1 Samuel 24:6 [1 Samuel 24:5]; Judges 16:4; 2 Kings 6:24; 2 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 24:4; in late Hebrew אַחֲרֵי זֹאת Job 42:16; Ezra 9:10; 2 Chronicles 21:18 (+ כָּל־ 2 Chronicles 35:20 (do.); compare Aramaic אַחֲרֵי דְנָה Daniel 2:29, Daniel 2:45, and בָּאתַר דְּנָה Daniel 7:6, Daniel 7:7. — The local (metaphor) and temporal senses blend Psalm 49:14 [Psalm 49:13] ּוְאַחֲרֵיהֶם בְּפִיהֶם יִרְצו & after them (i.e. following, imitating them) men applaud their speech, compare Job 21:33.
3. conjunction אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר after that, with the finite verb Deuteronomy 24:4; Joshua 7:8; Joshua 9:16; Joshua 23:1; Joshua 24:20 +; without אשׁר Leviticus 25:48; 1 Samuel 5:9. (The most common construction of אחרי is as a preposition with the infinitive construct) Joshua 2:7 ּאַחֲרֵי כַּאֲשֶׁר יָֽֽֽצְאו must be an error, either for אחרי אשׁר or for כאשׁר alone (notice אחריהם twice in the same verse); 2 Samuel 24:10 read אַחֲרֵי סָפַר see Dr.
4. with other prepositions: —
a. מֵאַחֲרֵי 57, 1 Chronicles 17:7 מִן־אַחֲרֵי (|| 2 Samuel 7:8 מֵאַחַר);
(α) from behind Genesis 19:26; 2 Samuel 2:23; from after i.e. from following after, usually with שׁוּב or סוּר 1 Samuel 24:2; 2 Samuel 2:22, 2 Samuel 2:26, 2 Samuel 2:30; 2 Samuel 11:15; Joshua 22:16, Joshua 22:18, Joshua 22:23, Joshua 22:29; 1 Samuel 15:11 +; with other verbs of motion, as עָלָה 1 Samuel 14:46; 2 Samuel 20:2, נַעֲלָה 2 Samuel 2:27, לָקַח Amos 7:15; 1 Chronicles 17:7, זָנָה Hosea 1:2; pregnantly Isaiah 30:21 thy ears shall hear a word ָמֵאַחֲרֶיך coming from behind thee, Jeremiah 9:21 [Jeremiah 9:22] (that is נָפַל, see Jeremiah 9:21a [Jeremiah 9:22a]) 1 Samuel 13:7 LXX of Lucian (Lag.) We Dr חָֽרְדוּ מֵאַחֲרָיו
(β) denoting position (מן = off, on the side of; see מן behind Exodus 14:19 (twice in verse); Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:4, Joshua 8:14; 1 Kings 10:19; Nehemiah 4:7 [Nehemiah 4:13] (ְמֵאַחֲרֵי ל) 2 Chronicles 13:13b.
(γ) of time (rare) † Deuteronomy 29:21 [Deuteronomy 29:22]; Ecclesiastes 10:14; מֵאַחֲרֵי כֵן 2 Samuel 3:28; 2 Samuel 15:1; 2 Chronicles 32:23.
b. אֶל־אַחֲרֵי 2 Samuel 5:23; 2 Kings 9:18 סֹב אֶל־אַחֲרַי 2 Kings 9:19; Zechariah 6:6.
c.עַל־אַחֲרֵי Ezekiel 41:15 beside, at the back of.

אַחֲרַי Adjective Proverbs 28:23 (si vera lectio). אָדָם אַחֲרַי a man that turneth backwards (compare Jeremiah 7:24) so Jos Ki De Olp. 429 (doubtfully) Now Sta§ 301 b: according to Ew§ 220 a Hi an abnormal adverb = afterwards, LagPr conjectures ֺבְּאָרְחו compare Greek Version of the LXX ὁδούς.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H311.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:4; 6:4; 9:9; 9:28; 10:18; 13:14; 14:17; 15:1; 15:14; 17:7; 17:8; 17:9; 17:10; 17:19; 18:5; 18:10; 18:12; 18:19; 19:17; 19:26; 22:1; 22:13; 23:19; 24:55; 25:11; 25:26; 30:21; 32:20; 35:12; 37:17; 39:7; 40:1; 41:31; 45:15; 48:4

Exodus

3:1; 10:14; 11:5; 14:19; 28:43; 29:29

Leviticus

14:8; 14:19; 14:36; 14:43; 15:28; 22:7; 25:15; 25:46; 25:48

Numbers

5:26; 6:19; 25:13

Deuteronomy

1:8; 4:37; 4:40; 10:15; 11:30; 12:25; 12:28; 21:13; 24:4; 29:22

Joshua

2:7; 7:8; 8:2; 8:4; 8:14; 9:16; 22:16; 22:18; 22:23; 22:27; 22:29; 23:1; 24:20

Judges

5:14; 10:3; 16:4; 19:5

1 Samuel

5:9; 10:5; 12:14; 13:7; 14:13; 14:46; 15:11; 21:9; 24:2; 24:5; 24:8; 24:21

2 Samuel

2:1; 2:22; 2:23; 2:23; 2:26; 2:27; 2:30; 3:28; 5:23; 7:8; 7:8; 7:12; 8:1; 10:1; 11:15; 13:1; 15:1; 20:2; 20:14; 21:18; 24:10

1 Kings

10:19; 17:17; 21:1

2 Kings

6:24; 9:18; 9:19; 11:6; 13:2; 19:21; 23:3

1 Chronicles

2:24; 17:7; 17:7; 28:8

2 Chronicles

13:13; 20:1; 21:18; 24:4; 32:9; 32:23; 35:20; 35:20

Ezra

7:1; 9:10

Nehemiah

4:13; 5:15; 13:19

Esther

2:1; 3:1

Job

21:3; 21:21; 21:33; 31:7; 42:7; 42:16

Psalms

49:13; 68:25; 78:71

Proverbs

20:7; 28:23

Ecclesiastes

10:14

Song of Songs

2:9

Isaiah

30:21; 37:22; 57:8; 59:13; 65:2

Jeremiah

7:24; 9:21; 9:21; 9:22; 9:22; 32:18; 32:39; 40:1; 41:16

Ezekiel

13:3; 40:1; 41:15

Daniel

2:29; 2:45; 7:6; 7:7

Hosea

1:2; 5:8

Amos

7:15

Zechariah

6:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H310 matches the Hebrew אַחַר ('aḥar),
which occurs 718 times in 664 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 14 (Jos 8:16–Jdg 10:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - So not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after H310 Israel, and they forsook the city, leaving it open, and pursued Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - Then the men of Ai turned [fn]back H310 and looked, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Then afterward H310 he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:16 -

Now it happened at the end of three days after H310 they had cut a covenant with them, that they heard that they were near them and that they were living [fn]nearly among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:14 - And there was no day like that before it or after H310 it, when Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - but as for you, do not stand there; pursue your enemies and [fn]attack them in the rear. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26 - So afterward H310 Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - “Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people [fn]melt with fear; but I followed H310 Yahweh my God fully.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - “So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever because you have followed H310 Yahweh my God fully.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day because he fully followed H310 Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:5 - ‘Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not surrender the manslayer into his hand because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - “Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, ‘What is this unfaithful act which you have committed against the God of Israel, turning away from following H310 Yahweh this day, by building yourselves an altar, to rebel against Yahweh this day?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:18 - Yet you are turning away this day from following H310 Yahweh. Now it will be that, if you rebel against Yahweh today, He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:23 - “If we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from following H310 Yahweh, or if to perform a burnt offering or grain offering on it, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings on it, may Yahweh Himself require it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:27 - rather it shall be a witness between us and you and between our generations after H310 us, that we are to perform the service of Yahweh before Him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings, so that your sons will not say to our sons in time to come, “You have no portion in Yahweh.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29 - “Far be it from us to rebel against Yahweh and turn away from following H310 Yahweh this day, by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God which is before His [fn]tabernacle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:1 -

Now it happened after H310 many days, after H310 Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies [fn]on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - ‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I smote Egypt [fn]by what I did in its midst; and afterward H310 I brought you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - ‘And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the [fn]Red Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - “If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after H310 He has done good to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:29 -

Now it happened that after H310 these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being 110 years old.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:31 -

And Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who [fn]survived H310 Joshua, who knew all the work of Yahweh which He had done for Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 -

Now it happened after H310 the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel asked of [fn]Yahweh, saying, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6 - But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and seized him and cut off his [fn]thumbs and big toes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - And afterward H310 the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country and in the [fn]Negev and in the [fn]Shephelah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:7 - And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who [fn]survived H310 Joshua, who saw all the great work of Yahweh which He had done for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after H310 them who did not know Yahweh or even the work which He had done for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed H310 other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked Yahweh to anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges either, for they played the harlot after H310 other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of Yahweh; they did not do as their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But it happened when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following H310 other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - The handle also went in after H310 the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the refuse came out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - Then he said to them, “Pursue them, for Yahweh has given your enemies the Moabites into your hands.” So they went down after H310 him and captured the fords of the Jordan opposite Moab and did not allow anyone to cross.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 -

Now after H310 him was Shamgar the son of Anath. And he struck down 600 Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - And Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day in which Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand; has not Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following H310 him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - But Barak pursued the chariots and all those in the camp as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the camp of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 -

“From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down,

Following H310 you, Benjamin, with your peoples;

From Machir commanders came down,

And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of a scribe.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:34 - But the Spirit of Yahweh clothed Gideon; and he blew a trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called together to follow H310 him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:35 - And he sent messengers throughout Manasseh, and they also were called together to follow H310 him; and he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - and you will hear what they say; and afterward H310 your hands will be strengthened, that you may go down against the camp.” So he went with Purah his young man down to the [fn]outskirts of the armed men that were in the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - And the men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - And he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who are following me, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna fled. And he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw the whole camp into utter fright.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - Then Gideon made it into an ephod and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 -

Then it happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel turned back and played the harlot with the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - And his mother’s [fn]relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem; and [fn]they were inclined to follow H310 Abimelech, for they said, “He is our [fn]relative.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4 - So they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, and they followed H310 him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed H310 Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand men and women.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 -

Then after H310 Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 -

After H310 him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel twenty-two years.


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