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Strong's H314 אַחֲרוֹן (acharon)

Acharon means “last” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G314 — anaginosko (“read”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H314
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 48
Books 22

Strong's H314 Quick Answer

Strong's H314 אַחֲריוֹן אַחֲרוֹן (acharown) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. acharown (akh-ar-one') (or (shortened) prob from H253 and a variation of H3863; acharon {akh-ar-one'};) adj. 1. hinder 2. (generally) late or last It has 48 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include last and hinder. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
acharown (akh-ar-one') (or (shortened) prob from H253 and a variation of H3863; acharon {akh-ar-one'};) adj. 1. hinder 2. (generally) late or last
Usage
48 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
last and hinder

Meaning and Definition

acharown (akh-ar-one') (or (shortened) prob from H253 and a variation of H3863; acharon {akh-ar-one'};) adj. 1. hinder 2. (generally) late or last 3. (specifically) (as facing the east) western [from H309] KJV: after (-ward), to come, following, hind(-er, -ermost, -most), last, latter, rereward, ut(ter)most. Root(s): H309

Original Word
אַחֲריוֹן אַחֲרוֹן
Transliteration
acharown
Derivation
Root: אחר First root strongs: 309
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H314. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

last

Usage: 1) behind, following, subsequent, western 1a) behind, hindermost, western (of location) 1b) later, subsequent, latter, last (of time)

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How Strong's H314 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render acharown, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

last 2 Samuel 19:11 20× hinder Joel 2:20

How Strong's H314 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 48 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H314 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H314 in the Old Testament

48 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 33:2 KJV

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

Exodus 4:8 KJV

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

Numbers 2:31 KJV

All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.

Usage Excerpts

First 48 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H314.

Genesis 33:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Exodus 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
Numbers 2:31 Old Testament, KJV
All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
Deuteronomy 11:24 Old Testament, KJV
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Deuteronomy 13:9 Old Testament, KJV
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deuteronomy 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 24:3 Old Testament, KJV
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
Deuteronomy 29:22 Old Testament, KJV
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
Deuteronomy 34:2 Old Testament, KJV
And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
Ruth 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
1 Samuel 29:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
2 Samuel 2:26 Old Testament, KJV
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
2 Samuel 19:11 Old Testament, KJV
And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
2 Samuel 19:12 Old Testament, KJV
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
1 Kings 17:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
1 Chronicles 23:27 Old Testament, KJV
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
1 Chronicles 29:29 Old Testament, KJV
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
2 Chronicles 9:29 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
2 Chronicles 12:15 Old Testament, KJV
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
2 Chronicles 16:11 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:34 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 25:26 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2 Chronicles 26:22 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
2 Chronicles 28:26 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 35:27 Old Testament, KJV
And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Ezra 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
Nehemiah 8:18 Old Testament, KJV
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Job 18:20 Old Testament, KJV
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Job 19:25 Old Testament, KJV
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Psalms 48:13 Old Testament, KJV
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Psalms 78:4 Old Testament, KJV
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
Psalms 78:6 Old Testament, KJV
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psalms 102:18 Old Testament, KJV
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Proverbs 31:25 Old Testament, KJV
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 Old Testament, KJV
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
Ecclesiastes 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Isaiah 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
Isaiah 30:8 Old Testament, KJV
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isaiah 41:4 Old Testament, KJV
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah 44:6 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 48:12 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Jeremiah 50:17 Old Testament, KJV
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Daniel 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Daniel 11:29 Old Testament, KJV
At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
Joel 2:20 Old Testament, KJV
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Haggai 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 14:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H314, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 6 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 8 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H314 FAQ

What does acharon (אַחֲרוֹן) mean?

Acharon (Strong's H314) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "last". acharown (akh-ar-one') (or (shortened) prob from H253 and a variation of H3863; acharon {akh-ar-one'};) adj. 1. hinder 2. (generally) late or last

How many times is acharon (אַחֲרוֹן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 48 linked usages for Strong's H314 across 22 books.

Where can I study acharon (אַחֲרוֹן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H314 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate acharon (אַחֲרוֹן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as last and hinder. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.