--- title: אַחֲרִית — after-part · The Tanakh dictionary description: אַחֲרִית (319), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 61 times: after-part. BDB 1906: n.f. after-part, end. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/319.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-3.md)‎ / אַחֲרִית‎ # אַחֲרִית «אַחֲרִית» in the Tanakh dictionary: **after-part** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 61 times · **Key:** 319 · **BDB:** אַחֲרִית ### Glosses end (21); the.end (17); a.future (5) ### Meaning (OSHB) after-part [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/319/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.f. after-part, end [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/319/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.f. after-part, end;— of place, only ψ 139:9 (late) א׳ יָם. of time, latter part or actual close (according to context), opp. רֵאשִׁית;—of year Dt 11:12; of a man’s life Nu 23:10 Pr 5:11 Jb 8:7; 42:12; of a people’s existence Nu 24:20; = final lot Dt 32:20, 29 Je 12:4; 31:17 ψ 73:17; a future, i.e. a happy close of life, suggesting sometimes the idea of a posterity, promised to the righteous Pr 23:18 (‖ תִּקְוָה hope) 24:14 Je 29:11 (לָתֵת לָכֶם א׳ וְתִקְוָה), withheld from the wicked Pr 24:20 (‖ נֵר יִדְעָֽךְ׃: v. infr.); the end or ultimate issue of a course of action Je 5:31 Pr 14:12; 23:32 (of wine, i.e. of indulgence in it) 25:8 Is 46:10 (absol., but implicitly of a phase of history) 47:7 (of the conduct described v 6 b–7 a) Dn 12:8; Ec 7:8; of a prediction = the event Is 41:22. בְּאַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים in the end of the days, a prophetic phrase denoting the final period of the history so far as the speaker’s perspective reaches; the sense thus varies with the context, but it often = the ideal or Messianic future; †Gn 49:1 (of the period of Israel’s possession of Canaan) Nu 24:14; Dt 4:30 (of the period of Israel’s return to God after adversity) 31:29 (of the period of Israel’s rebellion) Ho 3:5; Is 2:2 (= Mi 4:1) Je 23:20 (v. Graf) = 30:24; 48:47; 49:39; Ez 38:16 (of the period of Gog’s attack upon restored Israel) Dn 2:28 (Aramaic) 10:14 (of the age of Antiochus Epiphanes): cf. בַּא׳ הַשָּׁנִים Ez 38:8. א׳ הַגּוֹיִם Je 50:12 the last, hindermost of the nations (of Babylon), opp. ראשׁית הגוים Am 6:1 (Israel) cf. Nu 24:20 (Amalek) chief of the nations. concr. posterity (extension of usage noted above in Pr 24:20) ψ 37:37, 38 (possibly not more than ‘a future’ in v 37) 109:13 (‖ בְּדוֹר אַחֵר יִמַּח שְׁמָם) Am 4:2; 9:1 Ez 23:25(×2) (acc. to others, in these four passages, remnant, residue) Dn 11:4. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 47 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «אַחֲרִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/319/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Psalms 37:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.38/) וּֽ֭פֹשְׁעִים נִשְׁמְד֣וּ יַחְדָּ֑ו אַחֲרִ֖ית רְשָׁעִ֣ים נִכְרָֽתָה׃ *Word for word:* and transgressors they.will.be.destroyed altogether \[the\].future of.wicked.\[people\] it.will.be.cut.off *JPS 1917:* But transgressors shall be destroyed together; the future of the wicked shall be cut off. [Psalms 139:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.9/) אֶשָּׂ֥א כַנְפֵי־שָׁ֑חַר אֶ֝שְׁכְּנָ֗ה בְּאַחֲרִ֥ית יָֽם׃ *Word for word:* I.will.rise.up \[the\].wings of.dawn I.dwell at.\[the\] end of.\[the\].sea *JPS 1917:* If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; - ← previous: [אֲחַרְחֵל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/316.md) - next →: [אֲחֹרַנִּית](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/322.md) - ↑ back to [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-3.md)