After
אַחַרStrong’s H0311achar (a-char)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Achar is the Aramaic word usually translated “after” and “after them”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.”
Meaning
- After
How it's translated
- after 2
- after them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:45In contextForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
- Daniel 7:24In contextAnd the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
Aramaic dictionary
אַחַר achar · after
after Aramaic of a.char (אַחַר "after" H0310A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “after” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'AFTER, adjective
[The comparative degree of aft. But is some Teutonic dialects it is written with g.]
- In marine language, more aft, or towards the stern of the ship; as, the after sails; after hatchway.
- In common language, later in time; as, an after period of life.
All definitions and other forms of “after”
'AFTER, preposition
- Behind in place; as, men placed in a line one after another.
- Later in time; as, after supper.
- In pursuit of, that is, moving behind, following; in search of.“After whom is the king of Israel come out?” 1 Samuel 24:14“Ye shall not go after other Gods” Deuteronomy 6:14
- In imitation of; as, to make a thing after a model.
- According to; as, consider a thing after its intrinsic value.
- According to the direction and influence of.“To walk after the flesh; to live after the flesh” Romans 8:1“To judge after the sight of the eye” Isaiah 11:3
AFTER, adverb
Posterior; later in time; as, it was about the space of three hours after In this sense, the word, however, is really a preposition, the object being understood; about three hours after the time or fact before specified.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.