אַחַר (a.char) means “after” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: akh-ar' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אַחַר · a.char · after
1) after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time) 1a) as an adverb 1a1) behind (of place) 1a2) afterwards (of time) 1b) as a preposition 1b1) behind, after (of place) 1b2) after (of time) 1b3) besides 1c) as a conjunction 1c) after that 1d) as a substantive 1d1) hinder part 1e) with other prepositions 1e1) from behind 1e2) from following after
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אַחֲרַי · a.cha.ray · backwards
backwards (of a man that turns backwards)
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from H309 (אָחַר); properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV glosses: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, [phrase] out (over) live, [phrase] persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
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| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| after | 118 |
| and after | 22 |
| behind | 21 |
| after that | 19 |
| after you | 15 |
| after him | 14 |
| after them | 14 |
| some time later | 11 |
| with | 10 |
| behind him | 9 |
| behind them | 9 |
| afterward | 8 |
| him | 7 |
| next to him | 7 |
| them | 7 |
| from | 6 |
| from following | 6 |
| to | 6 |
| after me | 5 |
| and afterward | 5 |
| and then | 5 |
| behind you | 5 |
| followed | 5 |
| later | 5 |
| back | 4 |
| from following me | 4 |
| her | 4 |
| me | 4 |
| since | 4 |
| then | 4 |
| and | 3 |
| behind me | 3 |
| even after | 3 |
| follow | 3 |
| from him | 3 |
| to follow | 3 |
| you | 3 |
| after her | 2 |
| and next to him | 2 |
| and next to them | 2 |
| behind her | 2 |
| but after | 2 |
| but later | 2 |
| following | 2 |
| for | 2 |
| from following him | 2 |
| from me | 2 |
| from pursuing | 2 |
| from pursuing him | 2 |
| next in command was | 2 |
| next to them | 2 |
| pursuing | 2 |
| themselves with | 2 |
| then after | 2 |
| this was after | 2 |
| toward | 2 |
| vvv | 2 |
| about this | 1 |
| after all | 1 |
| after ehud | 1 |
| after elon | 1 |
| after ibzan | 1 |
| after it | 1 |
| after jephthah | 1 |
| after josiah | 1 |
| after some time | 1 |
| after someone | 1 |
| after the time | 1 |
| after these girls | 1 |
| after this | 1 |
| afterward as well | 1 |
| again | 1 |
| against | 1 |
| against you | 1 |
| and after all of them | 1 |
| and after him | 1 |
| and after me | 1 |
| and after that | 1 |
| and after them | 1 |
| and behind him | 1 |
| and behind them | 1 |
| and followed | 1 |
| and from | 1 |
| and gone after | 1 |
| and has followed me | 1 |
| and his followers | 1 |
| and i must go after | 1 |
| and its back | 1 |
| and later | 1 |
| and their followers | 1 |
| and your descendants | 1 |
| another | 1 |
| around | 1 |
| away | 1 |
| away from following | 1 |
| away with you | 1 |
| back with me | 1 |
| beyond him | 1 |
| beyond them | 1 |
| but | 1 |
| but afterward | 1 |
| but behind them | 1 |
| but shortly after | 1 |
| by departing from | 1 |
| by their ways | 1 |
| by worshiping it | 1 |
| chasing him | 1 |
| chasing me | 1 |
| follow after | 1 |
| follow him | 1 |
| follow me | 1 |
| following him | 1 |
| for aaron | 1 |
| from following you | 1 |
| from tending | 1 |
| from the rear | 1 |
| from you | 1 |
| going after | 1 |
| has followed | 1 |
| he followed | 1 |
| her back home | 1 |
| his back | 1 |
| his pursuit | 1 |
| how long | 1 |
| in | 1 |
| in addition to | 1 |
| in that direction | 1 |
| is behind us | 1 |
| is right behind us | 1 |
| it | 1 |
| jacob | 1 |
| just after | 1 |
| lead on | 1 |
| let him follow | 1 |
| many years later | 1 |
| next after | 1 |
| next after you | 1 |
| now that | 1 |
| of the spies | 1 |
| only after | 1 |
| only later | 1 |
| or after him | 1 |
| or follow | 1 |
| or since | 1 |
| plus | 1 |
| right behind you | 1 |
| so after | 1 |
| solicited | 1 |
| some time after | 1 |
| sought | 1 |
| stationed themselves behind | 1 |
| subsequent | 1 |
| supported | 1 |
| that after | 1 |
| that follows | 1 |
| that will come after him | 1 |
| the branches again | 1 |
| the butt | 1 |
| the israelites | 1 |
| the rear of the temple | 1 |
| the west | 1 |
| themselves | 1 |
| they did follow | 1 |
| they will trudge behind | 1 |
| they will walk after | 1 |
| to arms | 1 |
| to chase after them | 1 |
| to come | 1 |
| to him | 1 |
| to succeed him | 1 |
| to the egyptians | 1 |
| to the far side | 1 |
| to you | 1 |
| tola | 1 |
| toward him | 1 |
| was behind him | 1 |
| was behind them | 1 |
| was commander after him | 1 |
| was succeeded by | 1 |
| west | 1 |
| west of him | 1 |
| when | 1 |
| who follow | 1 |
| who follow him | 1 |
| who has just | 1 |
| will follow it | 1 |
| will later | 1 |
| will pursue | 1 |
| will you rebel after | 1 |
| with him | 1 |
| with me | 1 |
| with them | 1 |
| yet afterward | 1 |
| your descendants | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| after | 327 |
| and after | 54 |
| behind | 35 |
| and afterward | 28 |
| from following | 21 |
| and it came to pass after | 16 |
| followed | 14 |
| after thee | 7 |
| after them | 6 |
| and it came to pass after this | 6 |
| after him | 5 |
| and followed | 5 |
| afterward | 4 |
| not after | 4 |
| now after | 4 |
| afterwards | 3 |
| and afterwards | 3 |
| from | 3 |
| him after | 3 |
| that after | 3 |
| that follow | 3 |
| that followed | 3 |
| them | 3 |
| and it came to pass afterward | 2 |
| at thee | 2 |
| behind us | 2 |
| follow | 2 |
| forasmuch | 2 |
| from after | 2 |
| from him | 2 |
| from me | 2 |
| from pursuing | 2 |
| from them | 2 |
| him | 2 |
| in following | 2 |
| me behind | 2 |
| not from following | 2 |
| now after this | 2 |
| now it came to pass after | 2 |
| since | 2 |
| thee | 2 |
| thee behind | 2 |
| them after | 2 |
| them and behind | 2 |
| thou after | 2 |
| to follow | 2 |
| what shall be after | 2 |
| when | 2 |
| which followed | 2 |
| after me | 1 |
| after that | 1 |
| after you | 1 |
| again | 1 |
| against him behind | 1 |
| against them and they followed | 1 |
| all forasmuch | 1 |
| also after | 1 |
| and all that followed | 1 |
| and also after | 1 |
| and behind | 1 |
| and behold behind | 1 |
| and hereafter | 1 |
| and him that followeth | 1 |
| and how much more after | 1 |
| and i after | 1 |
| and it shall come to pass after | 1 |
| and it shall come to pass afterward | 1 |
| and shall afterward | 1 |
| and the posterity | 1 |
| and there followed | 1 |
| and they following | 1 |
| and thou hast followed | 1 |
| and went after | 1 |
| and who followed | 1 |
| and whoso followeth | 1 |
| any more after | 1 |
| are after | 1 |
| as they neither after | 1 |
| away | 1 |
| back | 1 |
| behind him | 1 |
| beside | 1 |
| but after | 1 |
| but afterward | 1 |
| but afterwards | 1 |
| by | 1 |
| by following | 1 |
| following | 1 |
| from behind him | 1 |
| from following after | 1 |
| from me after | 1 |
| from thee | 1 |
| from thenceforth | 1 |
| hard after | 1 |
| himself from me | 1 |
| i will follow | 1 |
| inasmuch as thou followedst | 1 |
| it came to pass after this | 1 |
| it or after | 1 |
| me | 1 |
| me as i followed | 1 |
| neither after | 1 |
| neither shall there be after | 1 |
| not behind thee | 1 |
| not from after | 1 |
| now it came to pass after this | 1 |
| now when | 1 |
| of you and after | 1 |
| once | 1 |
| over you continue following | 1 |
| seeing | 1 |
| shall follow | 1 |
| so that after | 1 |
| surely after | 1 |
| that outlived | 1 |
| that overlived | 1 |
| that shall be after | 1 |
| that they could not follow | 1 |
| the posterity | 1 |
| the remnant | 1 |
| the slayer | 1 |
| thee and after | 1 |
| thee neither after | 1 |
| thee neither shall there any after | 1 |
| them and after | 1 |
| them and afterward | 1 |
| then after | 1 |
| then afterward | 1 |
| there was none that followed | 1 |
| thereof and after | 1 |
| they followed | 1 |
| thou shalt not follow | 1 |
| thy posterity | 1 |
| till after | 1 |
| to the backside | 1 |
| upon them and after | 1 |
| were after | 1 |
| what shall be and what shall be after | 1 |
| whereas none followeth | 1 |
| will not follow | 1 |
| with him and hath followed | 1 |
| with the hinder end | 1 |
| ye after | 1 |
| ye from him | 1 |
| yet their posterity | 1 |
| you after | 1 |
Page 12 of 14. 664 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
Read word by wordThis is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Read word by wordYet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
Read word by wordbefore the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
Read word by wordTake me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
Read word by wordMy beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
Read word by wordI will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
Read word by wordAnd whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Read word by wordthis is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
Read word by wordSurely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Read word by word“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”
Read word by wordBehind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.
Read word by wordrebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
Read word by wordAll day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
Read word by word“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
Read word by wordThe priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
Read word by word“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
Read word by wordYou should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
Read word by wordI thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
Read word by wordAt that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
Read word by wordThen I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
Read word by wordif you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
Read word by wordWill you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
Read word by wordThey will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
Read word by wordInstead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.13
I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.15
Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.21
They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
Read word by wordEven your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
Read word by wordBut after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
Read word by wordThese evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
Read word by wordYour adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
Read word by wordThen you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
Read word by wordAnd you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
Read word by wordBut for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
Read word by wordBut I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
Read word by wordBut they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
Read word by word‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
Read word by wordAfter Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
Read word by wordDo not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
Read word by wordall the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
Read word by wordBut shortly after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke off his neck, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Read word by word(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
Read word by wordI will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
Read word by wordAfter I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Read word by word“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Read word by wordAfter I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:
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