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אחרי המשכן. כמו אחורי וכן אחור וקדם: BEHIND THE TABERNACLE. Achare (behind) means the same as achore (behind).33Achare literally means after. Thus achare ha-mishkan literally means after the tabernacle. Hence I.E.’s comment. Compare, achor va-kedem (behind and before) (Ps. 139:5).34We thus see that the word achor means behind, for kedem means front.
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ימה. בעבור שהוא הים הגדול הספרדי בארץ ישראל לפאת מערב: WESTWARD. The term employed for westward is yamah because the great Spanish sea35The Mediterranean. The Hebrew word for sea is yam. lies west of the Land of Israel.