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אָחוֹרStrong’s H0268achor (a-chor)
Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Achor is the Hebrew word usually translated “backwards”, “backward” and “hindquarters their”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.
“Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.”
Meaning
- The back side, the rearbackwards · hereafter (of time) · behind
How it's translated
- backwards 19
- backward 4
- hindquarters their 2
- and back 2
- to backwards 2
- back part 2
- to afterwards 2
- rear of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 12
- Isaiah 9
- Jeremiah 4
- Lamentations 3
- Exodus 2
- 2 Samuel 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:12And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
- Exodus 33:23And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
- 2 Samuel 1:22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
- 2 Samuel 10:9When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
- 1 Kings 7:25It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
- 1 Chronicles 19:10Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
All 41 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אָחוֹר achor · back
1) the back side, the rear 1a) backwards 1b) hereafter (of time) 1c) behind
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “back” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BACK, noun
- The upper part of an animal, particularly of a quadruped, whose back is a ridge.
- The outward or convex part of the hand, opposed to the inner, concave part, or palm.
- As the back of man is the part on the side opposite to the face; hence the part opposed to the front; as the back of a book and of a chimney, or the back of a house.
- The part opposite to or most remote from that which fronts the speaker or actor, or the part out of sight; as the back of an isle, of a wood, of a village.
All definitions and other forms of “back”
- As the back is the strongest part of an animal, and as the back is behind in motion; hence the thick and strong part of a cutting tool; as the back of a knife, or of a saw.
- The place behind or nearest the back; as, on the back of a hill or of a village.
- The outer part of the body, or the whole body; a part for the whole; as, he has not clothes to his back
- To turn the back on one, is to forsake, or neglect him.
- To turn the back to one, to acknowledge to be superior.
- To turn the back is to depart, or to leave the care or cognizance of; to remove or be absent.
- Behind the back is in secret, or when one is absent.
- To cast behind the back in scripture, is to forget and forgive, Is.xxxviii, 17; or to treat with contempt.
- To plow the back is to oppress and persecute. Psalms 129:3
- To bow the back is to submit to oppression.
BACK, adverb
To the place from which one came; as, to go back is to return.
- In a figurative sense, to a former state, condition or station; as, he cannot go back from his engagements.
- Behind; not advancing; not coming or bringing forward; as, to keep back a part; to keep one's selfback.
- Towards times or things past; as, to look back on former ages.
- Again; in return; as, give back the money.
- To go or come back is to return, either to a former place, or state.
- To go or give back is to retreat to recede.
BACK, verb transitive
To mount; to get upon the back; sometimes perhaps to place upon the back; as, to back a horse.
- To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid; as, the Court was backed by the House of Commons.
- To put backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
- To back a warrant, is for a justice of the peace in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender.
- In seamanship, to back an anchor is to lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one, to prevent its coming home.
- To back astern, in rowing, is to manage the oars in a direction contrary to the usual method, to move a boat stern foremost.
- To back the sails, is to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern.
BACK, verb intransitive
To move or go back; as, the horse refuses to back
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.