acharit · end, future

What it means

acharit (אַחֲרִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “end, future”.

What comes after: the end, the future; also posterity.

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. Where something ends, and how it ends.
2. The time that comes after, what awaits someone further on.
3. What remains of someone after him: his descendants.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

What comes after: the end of something, its last part; hence the future and the descendants who remain. It comes from אַחַר (‘behind, after’). The expression אַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים speaks of the days to come.

• The end of a life Numbers 23:10Job 42:12Psalms 73:17
• The end set against the beginning Ecclesiastes 7:8Isaiah 46:10
• “Its end {is} the ways of death” Proverbs 14:12Proverbs 5:4
• A future and a hope Jeremiah 29:11Proverbs 23:18
• The days to come, the end of the days Genesis 49:1Isaiah 2:2Daniel 10:14

How we translate it

“End” 37 times; “future” 7 when what comes after is a hope or its loss (“a future and a hope”, Jeremiah 29:11); “posterity” in Daniel 11:4; “the farthest end of the sea” in Psalm 139:9. In the Torah אַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים reads “in the days to come” (Genesis 49:1; Deuteronomy 4:30); in the prophets the same expression appears as “at the end of the days” (Isaiah 2:2) or “in the last days” (Jeremiah 23:20).

How it is translated

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

• end ×37
• future ×7
• last ×5
• days ×4
• latter ×3
• posterity ×2
• what remains of you ×2
• will be the outcome ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×6
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×13
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×10
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×5
• Hosea×1
• Amos×3
• Micah×1

• Genesis 49:1

  Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.

• Numbers 23:10

  Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

• Numbers 24:14

  And now, look, I am going to my people; come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

• Numbers 24:20

  And he saw Amalek and took up his poem and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end shall be to destruction.”

• Deuteronomy 4:30

  When you are in distress and all these things have found you, in the days to come, you will return to YHWH your Elohim and listen to his voice.

• Deuteronomy 8:16

  who fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and in order to test you, to do you good in the end;

• Deuteronomy 11:12

  a land that YHWH your Elohim cares for; the eyes of YHWH your Elohim are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

• Deuteronomy 31:29

  For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the days to come, because you will do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH, provoking him to anger with the work of your hands.”

• Deuteronomy 32:20

  And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a generation of perversities, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  If only they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their end!

• Job 8:7

  And your beginning will have been small, but your end will grow very great.

• Job 42:12

  And YHWH blessed the end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

• Psalms 37:37

  Mark the blameless and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

• Psalms 37:38

  But transgressors are destroyed together; the future of the wicked is cut off.

• Psalms 73:17

  until I entered into the sanctuaries of El; I understood their end.

• Psalms 109:13

  Let his posterity be for cutting off; in another generation let their name be blotted out.

• Psalms 139:9

  If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell at the farthest end of the sea,

• Proverbs 5:4

  but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a sword with two edges.

• Proverbs 5:11

  and you groan at your end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

• Proverbs 14:12

  There is a way that is right before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

• Proverbs 14:13

  Even in laughter the heart aches, and the end of joy is grief.

• Proverbs 16:25

  There is a way that is right before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

• Proverbs 19:20

  Listen to counsel and receive correction, so that you may become wise in your end.

• Proverbs 20:21

  An inheritance gained in haste at the beginning, its end will not be blessed.

• Proverbs 23:18

  for surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

• Proverbs 23:32

  In the end it bites like a serpent, and like a viper it stings.

• Proverbs 24:14

  so know wisdom to be for your soul; if you find it, then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

• Proverbs 24:20

  for there will be no future for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked will go out.

• Proverbs 25:8

  Do not go out to court hastily, lest— what will you do in the end of it, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

• Proverbs 29:21

  Whoever pampers his slave from youth, and in his end he will be an heir.

• Ecclesiastes 7:8

  Better is the end of a matter than its beginning; better is one long of spirit than one high of spirit.

• Ecclesiastes 10:13

  The beginning of the words of his mouth is witlessness, and the end of his mouth is evil madness.

• Isaiah 2:2

  And it will happen at the end of the days that the mountain of the house of YHWH will be established at the top of the mountains, and it will be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it,

• Isaiah 41:22

  Let them bring them forward and declare to us what will happen; the former things, what they were, declare, that we may set our heart on them and know their end; or the things to come make us hear.

• Isaiah 46:10

  declaring from the beginning the end, and from of old what has not been done; saying, ‘My counsel will stand, and all my desire I will do’;

• Isaiah 47:7

  And you said, ‘Forever I will be lady,’ to the point of not laying these things on your heart; you did not remember its end.

• Jeremiah 5:31

  the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own hand, and my people love it so. But what will you do at its end?’”

• Jeremiah 12:4

  How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of those who dwell in it the animals and the birds are swept away, for they say: “He will not see our end.”

• Jeremiah 17:11

  A partridge that hatches what it did not lay is the one who makes riches and not by justice; in the middle of his days he will leave it, and at his end he will be a fool.

• Jeremiah 23:20

  The anger of YHWH will not turn back until he has done and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart; in the last days you will understand it with understanding.

And 21 more times.