a.char marks a following time, person, movement, or position in the Bible.

As a grammatical relational word, it marks what follows: an event after another event, a successor after a person, movement in pursuit or allegiance, and a position behind something.

1. Marks what follows in sequence or relation · dominant

   The supplied forms are chiefly tagged Preposition and relate a following item to a prior one: in 1 Kings 19:11 the APB renders the sequence "after the wind there is an earthquake," while in 1 Kings 1:20 it describes who will sit on the throne after the king. The same relation occurs with pursuit and following in 1 Chronicles 10:2 and 1 Kings 18:21, and with position in 1 Kings 10:19; a few supplied forms are tagged Adverb in event-sequencing clauses such as 1 Chronicles 20:4.

   1 Kings 19:111 Kings 1:201 Chronicles 10:21 Kings 18:211 Kings 10:191 Chronicles 20:4

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB commonly presents the relation with "after" or "afterward," and also uses phrases such as "followed," "behind," and "went up after." Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings show the clauses' relational framing rather than a fixed English equivalent.