Strong's #309: 'achar (pronounced aw-khar')

a primitive root; to loiter (i.e. be behind); by implication to procrastinate:--continue, defer, delay, hinder, be late (slack), stay (there), tarry (longer).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âchar

1) to delay, hesitate, tarry, defer, remain behind

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to delay, tarry (intensive)

1a2) to cause one to delay, hinder, keep back

1b) (Piel) to delay, wait, stay behind (but not in hope)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Genesis 24:56: "And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away"
Genesis 32:4: "I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:"
Genesis 34:19: "And the young man deferred to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's"
Exodus 22:29: "Thou shalt not delay and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give"
Deuteronomy 7:10: "their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face."
Deuteronomy 23:21: "unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God"
Judges 5:28: "so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?"
Psalms 40:17: "art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God."
Psalms 70:5: "and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying."
Psalms 127:2: "for you to rise up to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so"
Proverbs 23:30: " They that tarry long at they that go to seek mixed wine."
Ecclesiastes 5:4: "thou vowest unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no"
Isaiah 5:11: "that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame"
Isaiah 46:13: "be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel"
Daniel 9:19: "O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for"
Habakkuk 2:3: "for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."