Acher אַחֵר

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Acher
אַחֵר
Transliterationacher
Strong's numberH312
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechadjective
Glossanother
Occurrences166 in 161 verses
Most frequent inDeuteronomy (25)

Acher (Hebrew אַחֵר, Strong's H312) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “another”. It occurs 166 times in 161 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVother (96), another (55), others (9), next (2), man's (1), strange (1), men (1), following (1)
BSBother (76), another (40), others (8), more (4), next (4), any other (3), different (3), may another (2), additional (1), another wife (1), someone else's (1), well as additional (1), and 14 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Acher, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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