To delay
אָחַרStrong’s H0309achar (a-char)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Achar is the Hebrew word usually translated “delay”, “it will delay” and “have delayed”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.”
Meaning
- To delay, hesitate, tarry, defer, remain behind(Qal) · (Piel) to delay, wait, stay behind (but not in hope)
How it's translated
- you delay 5
- delay 2
- it will delay 2
- and i have delayed 1
- he delayed 1
- you must delay 1
- he delays 1
- you will delay 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Psalms 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:56And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
- Genesis 32:4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
- Genesis 34:19And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
- Exodus 22:29Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
- Deuteronomy 7:10And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
- Deuteronomy 23:21When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Hebrew dictionary
אָחַר achar · to delay
1) to delay, hesitate, tarry, defer, remain behind 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to delay, tarry (intensive) 1a2) to cause one to delay, hinder, keep back 1b) (Piel) to delay, wait, stay behind (but not in hope) Also means: ya.char (יָחַר "to delay" H3186)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “delay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELAY, verb transitive
- To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer.“My lord delayeth his coming” Matthew 24:48
- To retard; to stop, detain or hinder for a time; to restrain motion, or render it slow; as, the mail is delated by bad roads.
- To allay.
All definitions and other forms of “delay”
DELAY, verb intransitive
To linger; to move slow; or to stop for a time.
DELAY, noun
- A lingering; stay; stop.
- A putting off or deferring; procrastination; as, the delay of trial is not to be imputed to the plaintiff.
- Hinderance for a time.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.