Another
אׇחֳרָןStrong’s H0321ochoran (o-cho-ran)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ochoran is the Aramaic word usually translated “another”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
Meaning
- Other, another
How it's translated
- and another 2
- another 2
- to another 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:44In contextAnd in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
- Daniel 3:29In contextTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- Daniel 5:17In contextThen Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
- 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
אׇחֳרָן ochoran · another
other, another Aramaic of a.cher (אַחֵר "another" H0312)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “another” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ANOTH'ER, adjective
[an, or one and other.]
- Not the same; different; as, we have one form of government; France, another
- One more, in addition to a former number, indefinitely; as, grant one request, they will ask another favor, another and another
- Any other; any different person, indefinitely; as, 'Let another praise thee and not thy own mouth.' This word is often used without a noun, becoming a substitute for the name of the person or thing; as in the last example.
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.