AFTER; AFTERWARD

ISBE

aft'-er, aft'-er-werd: The fundamental thought, in which all shades of meaning unite, is that of succession either in time or place. This succession may be immediate or remote. A very common adaptation of this conception the use of "after" to denote "according to," "after the manner of," or "in the order of," as in Ge 1:26 ; Eph 4:24 ; Lu 1:59 ; Ro 5:14 ; Heb 4:11 (the Revised Version, margin "unto"), and in many passages where the Greek uses the preposition kata, as Mt 23:3 ; Ro 8:4 ; 1Co 1:26 , etc. "In proportion to": Ps 28:4 ; compare Ps 90:15 . It sometimes correctly translates a peculiar Greek idiom of the preposition dia, with the genitive case, indicating time elapsed, as Mr 2:1 , literally, "through some days," "after some days had passed"; compare Ac 24:17 . While the Greek is expressed by a variety of words, the Hebrew uses 'achar for both preposition and adverb. H. E. Jacobs