achor · behind, backward

What it means

achor (אָחוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “behind, backward”.

Backward; the back part.

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. The part behind something or someone, the side not seen from the front.
2. What comes after, later on in time.
3. The side behind someone who faces east, where the sun sets.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• back ×23
• backward ×6
• behind ×6
• hindquarters ×2
• backs ×1
• hereafter ×1
• time to come ×1
• west ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×12
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that its rider falls backward.

• Exodus 26:12

  As for the overhang that remains in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains shall hang over the back of the dwelling.

• Exodus 33:23

  Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

• 2 Samuel 1:22

  From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.

• 2 Samuel 10:9

  When Joab saw that the battle front was against him before and behind, he chose from all the chosen men of Israel and drew them up against Aram.

• 1 Kings 7:25

  It stood on twelve oxen: three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

• 1 Chronicles 19:10

  When Joab saw that the battle front was against him before and behind, he chose from all the chosen men in Israel and drew them up against Aram.

• 2 Chronicles 4:4

  It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the Sea was upon them, above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

• 2 Chronicles 13:14

  Judah turned, and look, they had the battle in front and behind; and they cried out to YHWH, and the priests were blowing the trumpets.

• Job 23:8

  Look, I go east, and he is not there; and west, and I do not perceive him;

• Psalms 9:3

  When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before you.

• Psalms 35:4

  Let them be ashamed and humiliated, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be abashed, those who plot my harm.

• Psalms 40:14

  Let them be ashamed and abashed together, those who seek my soul to sweep it away; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

• Psalms 44:10

  You make us turn back from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder for themselves.

• Psalms 44:18

  Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path,

• Psalms 56:9

  Then my enemies will turn back on the day I call; this I know: that Elohim is for me.

• Psalms 70:2

  Let them be ashamed and abashed, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

• Psalms 78:66

  And he struck his adversaries from behind; an eternal reproach he gave them.

• Psalms 114:3

  The sea saw it and fled; the Jordan turned back.

• Psalms 114:5

  What ails you, sea, that you flee, Jordan, that you turn back,

• Psalms 129:5

  May they be put to shame and turned back, all who hate Zion.

• Psalms 139:5

  Behind and before you have hemmed me in, and you have laid on me your palm.

• Proverbs 29:11

  All his spirit the senseless man lets out, but the wise calms it back.

• Isaiah 1:4

  Woe, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned YHWH, they have spurned the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward.

• Isaiah 9:12

  Aram from the east and the Philistines from behind; and they devoured Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned back, and his hand is still stretched out.

• Isaiah 28:13

  And the word of YHWH will be to them command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there, so that they will go and stumble backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be captured.

• Isaiah 41:23

  Declare the things that are coming hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; indeed, do good or do harm, that we may look about in anguish and see it together.

• Isaiah 42:17

  They will be turned back, they will be utterly put to shame, those who trust in the carved image, who say to the cast image, ‘You are our gods.’

• Isaiah 42:23

  Who among you will give ear to this, will pay attention and hear for the time to come?

• Isaiah 44:25

  who frustrates the signs of the empty talkers, and drives mad diviners; who turns the wise backward, and their knowledge he makes foolish;

• Isaiah 50:5

  Adonai YHWH has opened my ear, and I did not rebel; I did not turn back.

• Isaiah 59:14

  And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off; for truth has stumbled in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

• Jeremiah 7:24

  But they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they went backward and not forward.

• Jeremiah 15:6

  You have abandoned me, declares YHWH; backward you go; so I stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you; I am weary of relenting.

• Jeremiah 38:22

  Look, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah are being brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon, and they are saying, ‘They have incited you and prevailed over you, your men of peace; your feet have sunk in the mire; they have turned back.’

• Jeremiah 46:5

  Why have I seen it? They are dismayed, turning back, and their mighty men are beaten down, and they have fled in flight and do not turn around; terror on every side, declares YHWH.

• Lamentations 1:8

  Sin Jerusalem has sinned; therefore she has become an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she too groans and turns back.

• Lamentations 1:13

  From on high he sent fire into my bones, and it ruled over them; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has made me desolate, faint all the day.

• Lamentations 2:3

  He has cut off in burning anger every horn of Israel; he has turned back his right hand before the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a fire of flame that devours all around.

• Ezekiel 2:10

  And he spread it out before me, and it was written on the front and on the back, and written on it were laments, moaning, and woe.

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