H322 - אֲחֹרַנִּית (ʼăchôrannîyth)

H322 אֲחֹרַנִּית (ʼăchôrannîyth) akh-o-ran-neeth'

Hebrew

Adv (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

backwards

Strong's Definition

backwards

Derivation: prolonged from H268 (אָחוֹר);

KJV Usage: back (-ward, again).

TWOT Reference: 68d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) backwards, back part, the rear

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

backwards, back part, the rear

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֲחֹרַנִּית ăchôranný̂yth BDB Definition: 1) backwards, back part, the rear Part of Speech: adverb A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: prolonged from H268 Same Word by TWOT Number: 68d Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (6)

9:23

4:18

18:37

20:10 20:11

38:8

Genesis 9:23

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across... their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

1 Samuel 4:18

As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward... from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And [Eli] had judged Israel forty years.

1 Kings 18:37

Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.

2 Kings 20:10

It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, answered Hezekiah, but not... for it to go back ten steps.

2 Kings 20:11

So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow... back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.

Isaiah 38:8

I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps. So the sunlight went back the ten... steps it had descended.