Midvash

אַחֲרִיתʼachărîyth

after-part, end

Pronunciation: akh-ar-eeth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H319

Meanings

a. of place (Psalms 139:9)

b. latter part, close, of time (Deuteronomy 11:12; Numbers 23:10; Proverbs 5:11)

c. last, hindermost (Jeremiah 50:12; Amos 6:1; Numbers 24:20)

d. posterity (Proverbs 24:20; Psalms 37:37; Psalms 37:38)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 61 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 49:1 Then Jacob called together all his sons and said, “Gather around me, and I will tell you what will happen to each of you in the days to come.
  • Numbers 23:10 Who can count Jacob’s descendants, as numerous as dust? Who can count even a fourth of Israel’s people? Let me die like the righteous; let my life end like theirs.”
  • Numbers 24:14 Now I am returning to my own people. But first let me tell you what the Israelites will do to your people in the future.”
  • Numbers 24:20 Then Balaam looked over toward the people of Amalek and delivered this message: “Amalek was the greatest of nations, but its destiny is destruction!”
  • Deuteronomy 4:30 “In the distant future, when you are suffering all these things, you will finally return to the Lord your God and listen to what he tells you.
  • Deuteronomy 8:16 He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.
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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).