אַחֲרִית

אַחֲרִית₆₁ noun feminine after-part, end; —
\ \ a. of place, only Psalm Praed 139,9 (late) יָם ׳א.
\ \ b. of time, latter part or actual close (according to context), opposed to רֵאשִׁית; — of year 5 Mos 11,12 of a man's life 4 Mos 23,10; Ord 5,11; Job 8,7; Job 42,12 of a people's existence 4 Mos 24,20 = final lot 5 Mos 32,20; 5 Mos 32,29; Jer 12,4; Jer 31,17; Sl 73,17 a future, i.e. a happy close of life, suggesting sometimes the idea of a posterity, promised to the righteous Ord 23,18 (|| תִּקְוָה hope) Ord 24,14; Jer 29,11 (וְתִקְוָה ׳לָתֵת לָכֶם א), withheld from the wicked Ord 24,20 (|| ׃ נֵר יִדְעָֽח ׃ see below); the end or ultimate issue of a course of action Jer 5,31; Ord 14,12; Ord 23,32 (of wine, i.e. of indulgence in it) Ord 25,8; Es 46,10 (absolute, but implicitly of a phase of history) Es 47,7 (of the conduct described vEs 47,6 b-7 a) Dan 12,8; Praed 7,8 of a prediction = the event Es 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; 1 Mos 49,1 (of the period of Israel's possession of Canaan) 4 Mos 24,14; 5 Mos 4,30 (of the period of Israel's return to God after adversity) 5 Mos 31,29 (of the period of Israel's rebellion) Hos 3,5; Es 2,2 ( = Mik 4,1) Jer 23,20 (see Graf) = Jer 30,24; Jer 48,47; Jer 49,39; Ezk 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 Ezk 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 4 Mos 24,20 (Amalek) chief of the nations.
\ \ d. concrete posterity (extension of usage noted above in Ord 24,20) Sl 37,37; Sl 37,38 (possibly not more than 'a future' here) Sl 109,13 (|| אַחֵר יִמַּח שְׁמָם בְּדוֺר) Amos 4,2; Amos 9,1; Ezk 23,25 (twice in verse) (according to others, in these four passages, remnant, residue) Dan 11,4.