acher · other

What it means

acher (אַחֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “other”.

Another; next.

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. Someone or something different from the one mentioned.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• other ×89
• another ×63
• others ×11
• next ×2
• different ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×15
• Exodus×5
• Leviticus×4
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×25
• Joshua×3
• Judges×6
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×8
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×9
• 2 Kings×9
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×10
• Ezra×2
• Nehemiah×3
• Esther×1
• Job×5
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×25
• Ezekiel×5
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 4:25

  And Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and called his name Seth, “for Elohim has granted me another offspring in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.”

• Genesis 8:10

  And he waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

• Genesis 8:12

  And he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.

• Genesis 17:21

  But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this appointed time next year.”

• Genesis 26:21

  They dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he called its name Sitnah.

• Genesis 26:22

  He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called its name Rehoboth, and said, “For now YHWH has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I give her to another man; stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:27

  Complete the week of this one, and we will give you that one too, for the service that you will serve with me yet another seven years.”

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in to Rachel also, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served with him yet another seven years.

• Genesis 30:24

  She called his name Joseph, saying, “May YHWH add to me another son.”

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream: look, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down before me.”

• Genesis 41:3

  And look, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly in appearance and thin in flesh, and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

• Genesis 41:19

  And look, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly in form and lean in flesh; I have never seen any like them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

• Genesis 43:14

  May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, so that he releases to you your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

• Genesis 43:22

  And other silver we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our bags.”

• Exodus 20:3

  You shall have no other gods before me.

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife for himself, he shall not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

• Exodus 22:5

  When a man lets a field or a vineyard be grazed over, and lets loose his livestock and it grazes in another's field, he shall repay from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.

• Exodus 23:13

  In all that I have said to you, take care. Do not mention the name of other gods; let it not be heard on your lips.

• Exodus 34:14

  For you shall not bow down to another god, for YHWH, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous El.

• Leviticus 6:11

  Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and bring out the ashes to outside the camp, to a clean place.

• Leviticus 14:42

  They shall take other stones and put them in place of the stones, and he shall take other clay and plaster the house.

• Leviticus 27:20

  But if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.

• Numbers 14:24

  But my servant Caleb, because there was a different spirit in him and he has followed me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went, and his offspring shall possess it.

• Numbers 23:13

  And Balak said to him, “Come, please, with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only the edge of them and shall not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”

• Numbers 23:27

  And Balak said to Balaam, “Come, please, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be right in the eyes of Elohim that you curse them for me from there.”

• Numbers 36:9

  So the inheritance shall not pass from tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall hold fast, each to his own inheritance.”

• Deuteronomy 5:7

  You shall not have other gods before me.

• Deuteronomy 6:14

  You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,

• Deuteronomy 7:4

  for he will turn away your son from following me, and they will serve other gods; and the anger of YHWH will be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.

• Deuteronomy 8:19

  But it will be, if you do forget YHWH your Elohim and go after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

• Deuteronomy 11:16

  Guard yourselves, lest your heart be seduced and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them,

• Deuteronomy 11:28

  and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of YHWH your Elohim and turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

• Deuteronomy 13:2

  and the sign or the wonder comes about, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods, whom you have not known, and let us serve them,”

• Deuteronomy 13:6

  If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your companion who is like your own soul incites you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” whom you have not known, you or your fathers,

• Deuteronomy 13:13

  “Wicked men have gone out from among you and have dragged away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ whom you have not known,”

• Deuteronomy 17:3

  and has gone and served other gods and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the army of the heavens, which I have not commanded,

• Deuteronomy 18:20

  But the prophet who acts with arrogance by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”

• Deuteronomy 20:5

  And the supervisors shall speak to the people, saying, “Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man dedicate it.

• Deuteronomy 20:6

  And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man begin to use it.

And 126 more times.