Limitless Word
אָחוֹרʼâchôwr/aw-khore'/
HebrewH26841 occurrences (KJV)

the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West

KJV renders it: after(-ward), back (part, -side, -ward), hereafter, (be-) hind(-er part), time to come, without.

Where it appears

  • Gen 49:17Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.
  • Exod 26:12The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
  • Exod 33:23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”
  • 2 Sam 1:22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
  • 2 Sam 10:9Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
  • 1 Kgs 7:25It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
  • 1 Chr 19:10Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
  • 2 Chr 4:4It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
  • 2 Chr 13:14When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
  • Job 23:8“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;
  • Ps 9:3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
  • Ps 35:4Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
  • Ps 40:14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
  • Ps 44:10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
  • Ps 44:18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
  • Ps 56:9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
  • Ps 70:2Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
  • Ps 78:66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
  • Ps 114:3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
  • Ps 114:5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
  • Ps 129:5Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
  • Ps 139:5You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
  • Prov 29:11A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
  • Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
  • Isa 9:12The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 28:13Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
  • Isa 41:23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
  • Isa 42:17“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
  • Isa 42:23Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
  • Isa 44:25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Isa 50:5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
  • Isa 59:14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
  • Jer 7:24But they didn’t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 15:6You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward: therefore I have stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
  • Jer 38:22‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”
  • Jer 46:5Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says Yahweh.
  • Lam 1:8Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
  • Lam 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all day long.
  • Lam 2:3He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
  • Ezek 2:10He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
  • Ezek 8:16He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.