Lexical Definition

‎אַחֲרִית‎ ʼachărîyth (akh-ar-eeth') end ^H:N-F
from ‎אַחַר‎

(last, latter) end (time), hinder (utter) -most, length, posterity, remnant, residue, reward.

• the last or end, hence, the future
• also posterity

1) after part, end
1a) end, issue, event
1b) latter time (prophetic for future time)
1c) posterity
1d) last, hindermost

See Greek: ἔκγονον · ἔσχατος · σπέρμα · τέκνον · τελευτή · χρόνος

Extended Information

• Aramaic equivalent: a.cha.rit (‎א‎ַ‎ח‎ֲ‎ר‎ִ‎ית‎ "latter" אַחֲרִית)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַחֲרִית‎₆₁ noun feminine after-part, end; —
a. of place, only Psalm Eccl 139:9 (late) ‎יָם‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎.
b. of time, latter part or actual close (according to context), opposed to ‎רֵאשִׁית‎; — of year Deut 11:12 of a man's life Num 23:10; Prov 5:11; Job 8:7; Job 42:12 of a people's existence Num 24:20 = final lot Deut 32:20; Deut 32:29; Jer 12:4; Jer 31:17; Ps 73:17 a future, i.e. a happy close of life, suggesting sometimes the idea of a posterity, promised to the righteous Prov 23:18 (|| ‎תִּקְוָה‎ hope) Prov 24:14; Jer 29:11 (‎וְתִקְוָה‎ ‎׳‎‎לָתֵת לָכֶם א‎), withheld from the wicked Prov 24:20 (|| ‎׃ נֵר יִדְעָֽח ׃‎ see below); the end or ultimate issue of a course of action Jer 5:31; Prov 14:12; Prov 23:32 (of wine, i.e. of indulgence in it) Prov 25:8; Isa 46:10 (absolute, but implicitly of a phase of history) Isa 47:7 (of the conduct described vIsa 47:6 b-7 a) Dan 12:8; Eccl 7:8 of a prediction = the event Isa 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; Gen 49:1 (of the period of Israel's possession of Canaan) Num 24:14; Deut 4:30 (of the period of Israel's return to God after adversity) Deut 31:29 (of the period of Israel's rebellion) Hos 3:5; Isa 2:2 ( = Mic 4:1) Jer 23:20 (see Graf) = Jer 30:24; Jer 48:47; Jer 49:39; Ezek 38:16 (of the period of Gog's attack upon restored Israel) Dan 2:28 (Aramaic) Dan 10:14 (of the age of Antiochus Epiphanes): compare ‎הַשָּׁנִים‎ ‎׳‎‎כְּא‎ Ezek 38:8.
c. ‎הַגּוֺיִם‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Jer 50:12 the last, hindermost of the nations (of Babylon), opposed to ‎ראשׁית הגוים‎ Amos 6:1 (Israel) compare Num 24:20 (Amalek) chief of the nations.
d. concrete posterity (extension of usage noted above in Prov 24:20) Ps 37:37; Ps 37:38 (possibly not more than 'a future' here) Ps 109:13 (|| ‎אַחֵר יִמַּח שְׁמָם בְּדוֺר‎) Amos 4:2; Amos 9:1; Ezek 23:25 (twice in verse) (according to others, in these four passages, remnant, residue) Dan 11:4.

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