Lexicon
אַחֲרַי
a.cha.ray
H0310B
H:Adv Hebrew

backwards

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a.cha.ray marks the temporal relation of acting after a rebuke in Proverbs 28:23.

The attested prepositional use marks an afterward relation: in Proverbs 28:23 it situates finding favor after the act of rebuking a man.

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  1. Preposition marking an afterward relation · dominant

    The form is tagged as a preposition in Proverbs 28:23, where it relates the rebuke of a man to what follows. In Proverbs 28:23 the APB renders the clause, "Whoever rebukes a man afterwards finds favor,".

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Proverbs 28:23, the APB presents the temporal relation with "afterwards" in the clause about rebuking a man and finding favor; its wording is a translation rather than a word-by-word alignment.

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