achoranit · backward

What it means

achoranit (אֲחֹרַנִּית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “backward”.

Behind.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. In the opposite direction from the one one was going or facing; to turn back.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• backward ×6
• back ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 9:23

  And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and laid it on the shoulders of both of them, and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see.

• 1 Samuel 4:18

  And it happened, when he mentioned the ark of Elohim, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• 1 Kings 18:37

  Answer me, YHWH, answer me, so that this people may know that you, YHWH, are Elohim, and you have turned their heart back.”

• 2 Kings 20:10

  Hezekiah said, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn back ten steps backward.”

• 2 Kings 20:11

  Isaiah the prophet cried out to YHWH, and he brought back the shadow on the steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backward ten steps.

• Isaiah 38:8

  Look, I am bringing back the shadow on the steps, which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, backward ten steps.’” And the sun went back ten steps on the steps by which it had gone down.

And 1 more times.