achar · delay

What it means

achar (אָחַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “delay”.

Hold back; stay late.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put off doing something, to stay behind or to make someone wait.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• delay ×10
• be late ×2
• delayed ×2
• who linger ×2
• stayed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Daniel×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 24:56

  He said to them, “Do not delay me, since YHWH has made successful my journey. Send me away so that I may go to my lord.”

• Genesis 32:4

  He commanded them, saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob: With Laban I have resided as an alien and stayed until now.

• Genesis 34:19

  The young man did not delay to do the thing, for he delighted in the daughter of Jacob; and he was the most honored of all the house of his father.

• Exodus 22:29

  You shall not delay offering the first of your harvest and of your press. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.

• Deuteronomy 7:10

  and who repays those who hate him to their face, making them perish; he will not delay with the one who hates him; to his face he will repay him.

• Deuteronomy 23:21

  When you make a vow to YHWH your Elohim, you shall not delay to pay it, for YHWH your Elohim will surely require it of you, and it will be sin in you.

• Judges 5:28

  Through the window she looked out and cried, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot slow in coming? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariots delayed?’

• 2 Samuel 20:5

  Amasa went to call out Judah, but he delayed beyond the appointed time that he had appointed him.

• Psalms 40:17

  And I am afflicted and needy; Adonai will think of me; my help and the one who brings me to safety are you; my Elohim, do not delay.

• Psalms 70:5

  And I am afflicted and needy; Elohim, hurry to me; my help and the one who brings me to safety are you; YHWH, do not delay.

• Psalms 127:2

  It is in vain for you to rise early to get up, to be late to sit down, to eat the bread of anxious toils; so he gives to his beloved sleep.

• Proverbs 23:30

  Those who linger over wine, those who go to search out mixed wine.

• Ecclesiastes 5:4

  When you vow a vow to Elohim, do not delay to fulfill it, for he has no delight in the senseless; what you vow, fulfill.

• Isaiah 5:11

  Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after intoxicating drink, who linger into the twilight while wine inflames them!

• Isaiah 46:13

  I have brought near my righteousness; it will not be far off, and my salvation will not delay; and I will put in Zion salvation, for Israel my beauty.”

• Daniel 9:19

  Adonai, hear! Adonai, forgive! Adonai, pay attention and act; do not delay, for your own sake, my Elohim, because your name is called over your city and over your people.”

• Habakkuk 2:3

  For the vision is yet for the appointed time; and it hastens toward the end, and it will not lie. If it delays, wait for it, for it will surely come; it will not be late.