Word study
Another
16 Hebrew and 7 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “another”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
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How often each original word is translated “another” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- אַחֵר achêranothertranslated this way 48 times of its 164 uses · Strong’s H312Adjective · Translated: other 79, another 46, others 9, more 4Full study and all 159 verses →
Genesis 4:25 And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
- רֵעַ rêashouting, roartranslated this way 33 times of its 185 uses · Strong’s H7453Noun · Translated: neighbor 60, another 30, friend 26, neighbor's 22Full study and all 172 verses →
Genesis 11:3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Exodus 18:16 “Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
- אָח âchbrothertranslated this way 18 times of its 615 uses · Strong’s H251Noun · Translated: brothers 234, brother 211, relatives 36, brother's 18Full study and all 562 verses →
- אֶחָד echâdonetranslated this way 16 times of its 855 uses · Strong’s H259Number · Translated: one 278, first 43, and one 43, a 36Full study and all 688 verses →
- אִישׁ îshmantranslated this way 13 times of its 1,399 uses · Strong’s H376Noun · Translated: man 650, men 198, one 79, each 79Full study and all 1,278 verses →
- שֵׁנִי shênîsecondtranslated this way 13 times of its 147 uses · Strong’s H8145Number · Translated: second 91, other 20, another 13, second time 7Full study and all 141 verses →
Leviticus 13:5 On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for another seven days.
1 Chronicles 7:15 Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.
- זֶה zehthis, thattranslated this way 11 times of its 984 uses · Strong’s H2088Pronoun · Translated: this 478, in this 42, these 39, of this 27Full study and all 913 verses →
- עוֹד ôda going round, continuancetranslated this way 6 times of its 390 uses · Strong’s H5750Adverb · Translated: longer 80, still 63, again 52, more 38Full study and all 372 verses →
Genesis 37:9 Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Judges 20:25 That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
- אָחוֹת âchôthsistertranslated this way 4 times of its 109 uses · Strong’s H269Noun · Translated: sister 89, sisters 9, another 4, sister's 3Full study and all 102 verses →
Exodus 26:5 Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.
- אׇחֳרִי ochŏrîanothertranslated this way 4 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s H317Adjective · Translated: another 2, Next 1, a 1, another beast 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Daniel 2:39 But after you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule the whole earth.
Daniel 7:5 Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’
- יָסַף yâsaphaddtranslated this way 3 times of its 202 uses · Strong’s H3254Verb · Translated: again 36, add 23, longer 20, severely 12Full study and all 198 verses →
Genesis 25:1 Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
Genesis 38:5 Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
- אָדָם âdâmman, mankindtranslated this way 2 times of its 509 uses · Strong’s H120Noun · Translated: man 311, men 75, mankind 21, human 18Full study and all 489 verses →
Numbers 5:6 “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty
- מוּת mûthdietranslated this way 2 times of its 771 uses · Strong’s H4191Verb · Translated: die 198, died 152, dead 89, put to death 47Full study and all 694 verses →
Numbers 35:17 Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:18 If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- רְעוּת reûthfellow (-woman)translated this way 2 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H7468Noun · Translated: mate 2, neighbors 1, woman 1, another 1Full study and all 6 verses →
- שֶׂה sehone of a flock, a sheep (or goat)translated this way 2 times of its 44 uses · Strong’s H7716Noun · Translated: sheep 25, lamb 12, another 2Full study and all 38 verses →
- אׇחֳרָן ochŏrânanothertranslated this way 2 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H321Adjective · Translated: another 2, one 1, other 1, someone else 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἀλλήλων allḗlōnone anothertranslated this way 75 times of its 92 uses · Strong’s G240Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun · Translated: another 72, other 7, themselves 3, another's 2Full study and all 88 verses →
- ἄλλος állosother, another, differenttranslated this way 45 times of its 145 uses · Strong’s G243Adjective · Translated: another 42, other 33, others 33, someone else 6Full study and all 130 verses →
- ἕτερος héterosanother, differenttranslated this way 32 times of its 96 uses · Strong’s G2087Adjective · Translated: another 32, other 26, others 17, different 5Full study and all 91 verses →
- ἑαυτοῦ heautoûhimself, herself, itselftranslated this way 14 times of its 269 uses · Strong’s G1438Reflexive Pronoun · Translated: himself 66, yourselves 28, themselves 26, his 17Full study and all 246 verses →
- εἷς heîsonetranslated this way 5 times of its 312 uses · Strong’s G1520Adjective · Translated: one 223, a 16, single 13, first 9Full study and all 267 verses →
- ὁ hothetranslated this way 3 times of its 9,898 uses · Strong’s G3588Article · Translated: the 6,410, of the 748, of 344, who 329Full study and all 5,117 verses →
- ἀλλότριος allótriosbelonging to another person, foreigntranslated this way 2 times of its 13 uses · Strong’s G245Adjective · Translated: others 4, foreign 2Full study and all 13 verses →
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.