אַחֵר acher

Hebrew word for “another” · Strong’s H312 · used 166 times in 161 verses

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Meaning

1) another, other, following; 1a) following, further; 1b) other, different

How it is translated

Glosses given for acher in context, with how often each is used:

• other 87
• another 61
• others 9
• another person 3
• following 1
• another woman 1
• more than the other 1
• those who another god 1
• other people 1
• belonged to the other door 1

Where it is used

Also in 16 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 28 (5), Judges 2 (4), 2 Kings 17 (4), Jeremiah 44 (4), Genesis 29 (3), Deuteronomy 13 (3), Deuteronomy 20 (3), Jeremiah 7 (3), Genesis 8 (2), Genesis 26 (2)

Forms

• אחרים 76
• אחר 48
• אחרת 13
• האחרת 6
• אחרות 5
• לאחרים 5
• האחר 3
• ואחר 3
• לאחר 3
• מאחרת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with acher more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עָבַד avad “to serve” 35
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 42
• שָׁחָה shachah “to bow” 21
• אַחַר achar “after” 25
• אָב av “father” 22
• עָזַב azav “to leave” 14
• קָטַר qatar “to offer” 12
• כָּעַס kaas “to provoke” 10
• הֶם hem “them” 18
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 16
• יָדַע yada “to know” 17
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 17

Key verses

The verses using acher that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 43:14 — And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
• Deuteronomy 13:6 — If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly,…
• Deuteronomy 28:64 — And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou…
• 1 Samuel 26:19 — Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if…
• 1 Kings 14:9 — But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me…
• Isaiah 65:15 — And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
• Jeremiah 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?…
• Jeremiah 7:6 — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
• Jeremiah 7:9 — Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
• Jeremiah 8:10 — Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to…
• Jeremiah 35:15 — I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your…
• Hosea 3:1 — Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.