אַחֲרוֹןʼachărôwn

coming after, behind

Pronunciation: akh-ar-one' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H314

Meanings

a. behind, hindermost, of place (Genesis 33:2; Deuteronomy 11:24; Deuteronomy 34:2)

b. latter, last, of time (Exodus 4:8; Deuteronomy 24:3; 2 Samuel 19:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 51 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 33:2 He put the servant wives and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
  • Exodus 4:8 The Lord said to Moses, “If they do not believe you and are not convinced by the first miraculous sign, they will be convinced by the second sign.
  • Numbers 2:31 So the total of all the troops on Dan’s side of the camp is 157,600. These three tribes will be last, marching under their banners whenever the Israelites travel.”
  • Deuteronomy 11:24 Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
  • Deuteronomy 13:9 You must put them to death! Strike the first blow yourself, and then all the people must join in.
  • Deuteronomy 17:7 The witnesses must throw the first stones, and then all the people may join in. In this way, you will purge the evil from among you.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).