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Lexicon :: Strong's H312 - 'aḥēr

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אַחֵר
Transliteration
'aḥēr
Pronunciation
akh-air'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 68a

Strong’s Definitions

אַחֵר ʼachêr, akh-air'; from H309; properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.:—(an-) other man, following, next, strange.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 166x

The KJV translates Strong's H312 in the following manner: other(s) (105x), another (55x), next (2x), following (1x), man's (1x), men (1x), strange (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 166x
The KJV translates Strong's H312 in the following manner: other(s) (105x), another (55x), next (2x), following (1x), man's (1x), men (1x), strange (1x).

  1. another, other, following

    1. following, further

    2. other, different

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַחֵר ʼachêr, akh-air'; from H309; properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.:—(an-) other man, following, next, strange.
STRONGS H312: Abbreviations
I. אַחֵר adjective another (properly one coming behind), feminine אַחֶ֫רֶת (with daghesh forte implicit); plural אֲחֵרִים (as if from singular אָחֵר), once Job 31:10 אֲחֵרִין, אֲחֵרוֺת (= Arabic آخَرُ, Sabean אאחֿר, Assyrian aḫru future feminine plural as substantive aḫrat ûmê future of days) Genesis 4:25 זֶרַע אַחֵר another seed Genesis 8:10 שִׁבְעַת יָמִים אֲחֵרִים seven other days Exodus 22:4 בִּשְׂדֵה אַחֵר in the field of another + often; אִישׁ אַחֵר another man (husband) Genesis 29:19; Deuteronomy 24:2; Jeremiah 3:1; חָצֵר הָאַחֶרֶת 1 Kings 7:8 the other court, see חָצֵר; הַחוֺמָה א׳ 2 Chronicles 32:5 the other wall, see חוֺמָה. Appended to a proper name for distinction Ezra 2:31= Nehemiah 7:34 (see Nehemiah 7:7 = Nehemiah Nehemiah 7:12) Nehemiah 7:33 (probably here text error, see Be Ry18: not in Ezra 2:29). Often with the collateral sense of different, as בְּגָדִים א׳ other garments Leviticus 6:4; 1 Samuel 28:8; Ezekiel 42:14; Ezekiel 44:19; עָפָר, אֲבָנִים Leviticus 14:42; רוּחַ Numbers 14:24; א׳ לְאִישׁ וְנֶהְפַּכְתָּ֫ 1 Samuel 10:6; לֵב 1 Samuel 10:9; Ezekiel 11:19 (Greek Version of the LXX Hi Sm); שֵׁם Isaiah 65:15 (compare Isaiah 62:2 חָדָשׁ); with that of strange, alien, as אִישׁ אַ׳ Deuteronomy 20:5, 6, 7; Deuteronomy 28:30 (so אַחֵר, אֲחֵרִים alone Psalm 109:8; Job 31:8, 10; Isaiah 65:22; Jeremiah 6:12; Jeremiah 8:10 and elsewhere); עַם Deuteronomy 28:32; אֶרֶץ Deuteronomy 29:27; Jeremiah 22:26; אִשָּׁה Judges 11:2; לָשׁוֺן Isaiah 28:11 (|| בְּלַעֲגֵי שָׂפָה); especially in the phrase אֱלהִים אֲחֵרִים other gods (63 times) Exodus 20:3 (= Deuteronomy 5:7) Deuteronomy 23:13 (both J E) Joshua 24:2, 16 (E) 1 Samuel 26:19; Hosea 3:1, & particularly in Deuteronomy (Hosea 6:14; Deuteronomy 8:19 + 15 times) & Deuteronomic writers, as Joshua 23:16; Judges 2:12, 17, 19 Jeremiah (18 times) & compiler of Kings; אֵל אַחֵר once Exodus 34:14 (JE). So אַחֵר alone Isaiah 42:8; Psalm 16:4. Of time, following, next (rare) בַּשָּׁנָה הָאַ׳ Genesis 17:21 (P) in the next year; 2 Kings 6:29 בַּיּוֺם הָאַ׳; דּוֺר אַ׳ Joel 1:3; Psalm 109:13 in poetry the next generation (Judges 2:10 in prose = another generation).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:25; 8:10; 17:21; 29:19

Exodus

20:3; 22:4; 34:14

Leviticus

6:4; 14:42

Numbers

14:24

Deuteronomy

5:7; 8:19; 20:5; 20:6; 20:7; 23:13; 24:2; 28:30; 28:32; 29:27

Joshua

23:16; 24:2; 24:16

Judges

2:10; 2:12; 2:17; 2:19; 11:2

1 Samuel

10:6; 10:9; 26:19; 28:8

1 Kings

7:8

2 Kings

6:29

2 Chronicles

32:5

Ezra

2:29; 2:31

Nehemiah

7:7; 7:12; 7:33; 7:34

Job

31:8; 31:10; 31:10

Psalms

16:4; 109:8; 109:13

Isaiah

28:11; 42:8; 62:2; 65:15; 65:22

Jeremiah

3:1; 6:12; 8:10; 22:26

Ezekiel

11:19; 42:14; 44:19

Hosea

3:1

Joel

1:3

H312

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Strong's Number H312 matches the Hebrew אַחֵר ('aḥēr),
which occurs 25 times in 25 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:16 - I will pronounce judgment
on my people for all their evil—
for deserting me and burning incense to other gods.
Yes, they worship idols made with their own hands!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If a man divorces a woman
and she goes and marries someone else,
he will not take her back again,
for that would surely corrupt the land.
But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
so why are you trying to come back to me?”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:12 - Their homes will be turned over to their enemies,
as will their fields and their wives.
For I will raise my powerful fist
against the people of this land,”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - only if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; only if you stop your murdering; and only if you stop harming yourselves by worshiping idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and burn incense to Baal and all those other new gods of yours,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - No wonder I am so angry! Watch how the children gather wood and the fathers build sacrificial fires. See how the women knead dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. And they pour out liquid offerings to their other idol gods!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:10 - I will give their wives to others
and their farms to strangers.
From the least to the greatest,
their lives are ruled by greed.
Yes, even my prophets and priests are like that.
They are all frauds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - They have returned to the sins of their forefathers. They have refused to listen to me and are worshiping other gods. Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:11 - “Then you will give them the LORD’s reply: ‘It is because your ancestors were unfaithful to me. They worshiped other gods and served them. They abandoned me and did not obey my word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:13 - So I will throw you out of this land and send you into a foreign land where you and your ancestors have never been. There you can worship idols day and night—and I will grant you no favors!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4 - “‘For Israel has forsaken me and turned this valley into a place of wickedness. The people burn incense to foreign gods—idols never before acknowledged by this generation, by their ancestors, or by the kings of Judah. And they have filled this place with the blood of innocent children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - Yes, all the houses in Jerusalem, including the palace of Judah’s kings, will become like Topheth—all the houses where you burned incense on the rooftops to your star gods, and where liquid offerings were poured out to your idols.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:9 - And the answer will be, ‘Because they violated their covenant with the LORD their God by worshiping other gods.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:26 - I will expel you and your mother from this land, and you will die in a foreign country, not in your native land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - Do not provoke my anger by worshiping idols you made with your own hands. Then I will not harm you.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - The Babylonians outside the walls will come in and set fire to the city. They will burn down all these houses where the people provoked my anger by burning incense to Baal on the rooftops and by pouring out liquid offerings to other gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - Time after time I sent you prophets, who told you, “Turn from your wicked ways, and start doing things right. Stop worshiping other gods so that you might live in peace here in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you would not listen to me or obey me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:28 - “Get another scroll, and write everything again just as you did on the scroll King Jehoiakim burned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 - So Jeremiah took another scroll and dictated again to his secretary, Baruch. He wrote everything that had been on the scroll King Jehoiakim had burned in the fire. Only this time he added much more!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - They provoked my anger with all their wickedness. They burned incense and worshiped other gods—gods that neither they nor you nor any of your ancestors had ever even known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:5 - But my people would not listen or turn back from their wicked ways. They kept on burning incense to these gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - Why provoke my anger by burning incense to the idols you have made here in Egypt? You will only destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and mockery for all the nations of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:15 - Then all the women present and all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to idols—a great crowd of all the Judeans living in northern Egypt and southern Egypt[fn]—answered Jeremiah,
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