STRONGS NUMBER H4279


Word Summary
machar: tomorrow, in time to come
Original Word: מָחָר
Transliteration: machar
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-khar')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: tomorrow, in time to come
Meaning: deferred, the morrow, tomorrow, hereafter
Strong's Concordance
time to come, tomorrow

Probably from 'achar; properly, deferred, i.e. The morrow; usually (adverbially) tomorrow; indefinitely, hereafter -- time to come, tomorrow.

see HEBREW 'achar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4279. machar

מָחָר52 noun masculine, used often as

adverb, tomorrow, in time to come (Aramaic מְחַר‎ ; probably properly time in front, Köii. 263, compare √, and Assyrian ma—ru, front, often of time, though always of former time, of old, DlHWB 402); —

1 to-morrow (the day following the present day),

a. as substantive Exodus 16:23 לְי קֹדֶשׁ שַׁבַּת ׳שַׁבָּתוֺן מָחָרto-morrow is a sabbath, etc., 1 Samuel 20:5 מָחָר חֹדֶשׁto-morrow is the new moon, 20:18; in מָחָר יוֺםGenesis 30:33; Proverbs 27:1; Isaiah 56:12; in the idiomatic phrase מָחָר כָּעֵת‎ at the like of the time, (being) to-morrow, = about to-morrow (see כְּ1a) Exodus 9:18; 1 Samuel 9:16; 20:12; 1 Kings 19:2; 20:6; 2 Kings 7:1, 18; 10:6; and in לְמָחָרExodus 8:19 הַזֶּה הָאֹת יִהְיֶה לְמָחָר‎, = for, against, to-morrow, 8:6; Numbers 11:18; Joshua 7:13; Esther 5:12.

b. as adverb accusative Exodus 8:25; 9:5 ׳י הַזֶּה הַדָּבָר יַעֲשֶׂה מָחָר‎, 10:4 אַרְבֶּה מָחָר מֵבִיא הִנְנִי‎, 17:9; 32:5; Numbers 14:25; 1 Samuel 11:9 etc., Joshua 11:6 הַזּאֹת כָּעֵת מָחָר‎; opposed to הַיּוֺםExodus 19:10 וּמָחָר הַיּוֺם‎, Joshua 22:18; 2 Samuel 11:12a; rhetorically, Isaiah 22:13 נָמוּת מָחָר כִּי‎.

2 = in future time, Exodus 13:14 לֵאמֹר מָחָר בִנְךָ יִשְׁאָֽלְךָ כִּי‎ = Deuteronomy 6:20; Joshua 4:6, 21; 22:24, 27, 28; so מָחָר בְּיוֺםGenesis 30:33.