Definition

properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)

Etymology

from H309 (אָחַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• 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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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