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 v[Isa 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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