אָחוֹר achor

Hebrew word for “back” · Strong’s H268 · used 41 times in 41 verses

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Meaning

1) the back side, the rear; 1a) backwards; 1b) hereafter (of time); 1c) behind

How it is translated

Glosses given for achor in context, with how often each is used:

• backwards 23
• backward 4
• behind 2
• hindquarters 2
• back 2
• back part 2
• afterwards 2
• rear 1
• back parts 1
• west 1
• backs 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 44 (2), Psalms 114 (2), Isaiah 42 (2), Lamentations 1 (2), Genesis 49 (1), Exodus 26 (1), Exodus 33 (1), 2 Samuel 1 (1), 2 Samuel 10 (1), 1 Kings 7 (1)

Forms

• אחור 24
• לאחור 5
• ואחור 4
• אחריהם 3
• אחרי 2
• ומאחור 1
• באחור 1
• מאחור 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with achor more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• סוּג sug “to turn” 9
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 9
• בּוֹשׁ bush “be ashamed” 5
• קֶדֶם qedem “front” 4
• חָפֵר chapher “be ashamed” 3
• פָּנָה panah “to turn” 4
• רָאָה raah “to see” 7
• כָּלַם kalam “be humiliated” 3
• נָטָה natah “to stretch” 4
• כָּשַׁל kashal “to stumble” 3
• יָם yam “sea” 4
• אֲרָם aram “Syria” 3

Key verses

The verses using achor that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Psalms 35:4 — Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
• Psalms 40:14 — Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
• Psalms 114:3 — The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
• Isaiah 1:4 — Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One…
• Isaiah 9:12 — The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is…
• Isaiah 44:25 — That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
• Isaiah 50:5 — The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
• Jeremiah 7:24 — But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• Jeremiah 15:6 — Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
• Lamentations 1:8 — Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and…
• Lamentations 1:13 — From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate…
• Ezekiel 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.