Backwards
אֲחֹרַנִּיתStrong’s H0322achorannit (a-cho-ran-nit)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Achorannit is the Hebrew word usually translated “backwards”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.”
Meaning
- Backwards, back part, the rear
How it's translated
- backwards 7
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 4:18And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
- 1 Kings 18:37Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
- 2 Kings 20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
- 2 Kings 20:11And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
- Isaiah 38:8Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲחֹרַנִּית achorannit · backwards
backwards, back part, the rear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “backwards” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BACK'WARDS, adverb
[back and ward. See Ward.]
With the back in advance; as, to move backward.
- Toward the back; as, to throw the arms backward; to move backwards and forwards.
- On the back, or with the back downwards; as, to fall backward.
- Toward past times or events; as to look backward on the history of man.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
All definitions and other forms of “backwards”
- From a better to a worse state; as, public affairs go backward.
- In time past; as, let us look some ages backward.
- Perversely; from a wrong end.
- Towards the beginning; in an order contrary to the natural order; as, to read backward.
- In a scriptural sense, to go or turn backward, is to rebel, apostatize, or relapse into sin, or idolatry.
- Contrarily; in a contrary manner.
BACK'WARD, adjective
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating. For wiser brutes are backward to be slaves.
- Slow; sluggish; dilatory.
- Dull; not quick of apprehension; behind in progress; as a backward learner.
- Late; behind in time; coming after something else, or after the usual time; as backward fruits; the season is backward.
BACK'WARD, noun
The things or state behind or past.
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.