אַחֲרִית
a.cha.rit (H0319)
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# Acharit (אַחֲרִית): The Hebrew Concept of "End" The Hebrew word *acharit* appears 61 times throughout the Bible and carries the fundamental meaning of "end." This lexical entry represents a core temporal concept in biblical thought—the conclusion or termination point of something. The word's presence across a substantial number of biblical passages indicates its importance in expressing how ancient Hebrew speakers understood finality, completion, and closure in both concrete and abstract contexts. Without access to the specific contextual examples from the full lexicon data, the range of applications for *acharit* likely spans from literal endings (such as the end of a day or period) to metaphorical or theological uses (such as the end of a nation, the ultimate outcome of events, or eschatological conclusions). This semantic flexibility would make it a versatile term for biblical authors describing temporal transitions and final states across narrative, prophetic, and wisdom literature. The frequency of *acharit* in the biblical text underscores that the concept of "ending" held significance for Hebrew thought and theological expression. Its 61 occurrences suggest that articulating closure, consequence, and ultimate outcomes was important enough to warrant consistent use of this particular term throughout Scripture's diverse literary genres and historical periods.
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Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.
Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.
for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”
There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.
“Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
‘But it will happen in the latter days that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says Yahweh.”
your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire.
After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.
You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”
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