Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
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John 18:6
As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
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אָחוֹר
ʼâchôwr · aw-khore'
11 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West
Strong's KJV usage: after(-ward), back (part, -side, -ward), hereafter, (be-) hind(-er part), time to come, without.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:17Strong's last: Lamentations 1:8
Open full H268 profile →אֲחֹרַנִּית
ʼăchôrannîyth · akh-o-ran-neeth'
6 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
backwards
Strong's KJV usage: back (-ward, again).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 9:23Strong's last: Isaiah 38:8
Open full H322 profile →ὀπίσω
opísō · op-is'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
to the back, i.e. aback (as adverb or preposition of time or place; or as noun)
Strong's KJV usage: :--after, back(-ward), (+ get) behind, + follow.
Strong's first: John 18:6Strong's last: John 18:6
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H268
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 of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
H268
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
H322
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
H268
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
H268
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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backward
BACK'WARD
BACK'WARDLY, adverb Unwillingly; reluctantly; adversely; perversely.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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