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# אָחוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H268

**the hinder side** — used 41 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

the hinder side [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/268/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָחוֹר: subst. hinder side, back part hinder part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/268/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** subst. (Arabic أُخُرٌ) the hinder side, back part, in the sg., mostly in adverbial phrases:— as accus., in poetry backwards 23 times (= prose אֲחֹרַנִּית) with vbs. such as נָפַל fall Gn 49:17, נָשׂוֹג be turned 2 S 1:22 (‖ תָּשׁוּב רֵיקָם), שׁוּן ψ 9:4; 56:10 +, נָסוֹג 35:4; 40:15 + (of enemies repulsed), 44:19 Is 50:5 (from obedience to God), נָזוֹר Is 1:4, הֵשִׁיב 44:25 ψ 44:11, הִכָּה 78:66; behind (opp. קֶדֶם) ψ 139:5 Jb 23:8; in the phrase פָּנִים וְאָחוֹר in front and behind †1 Ch 19:10 (altered from מִפָּ׳ וּמֵאָ׳ in 2 S v. infr.) 2 Ch 13:14 Ez 2:10. בְּאָחוֹר †Pr 29:11, וְחָכָם בְּאָחוֹר יְשַׁבְּחֶנָּה Ges Hi but a wise man stilleth it (רוּחַ anger) backwards (sc. when it would break forth), De in the background, sc. of his heart (‖ כָּל־רוּחוֹ יוֹצִיא כְסִיל). לְאָחוֹר (α) as a. †ψ 114:3, 5 Je 7:24; (β) of time, hereafter (cf. לְפָּנִים = before) †Is 41:23; 42:23. מֵאָחוֹר behind (מן = on the side of) †2 S 10:9 מִפָּנִים וּמֵ׳ in front and behind, Is 9:11 וּפְלִשְׁתִּים מֵאָ׳ and the Philistines behind (= on the West), opp. אֲרָם מִקֶּדֶם. cstr. אֲחֹרֵי hinder part (of the tabernacle Ex 26:12, (of a man or animal)1 K 7:25 (= 2 Ch 4:4) Ez 8:16 (of God) Ex 33:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: backwards (23); backward (4); behind (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 129:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.5/#tree)

יֵ֭בֹשׁוּ וְיִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֑וֹר כֹּ֝֗ל שֹׂנְאֵ֥י צִיּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be.ashamed and may.they.be.turned.back backward all \[those.who\].hate (of).Zion

*JPS 1917:* Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion.

[Psalms 78:66](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.66/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.66/#tree)

וַיַּךְ־צָרָ֥יו אָח֑וֹר חֶרְפַּ֥ת ע֝וֹלָ֗ם נָ֣תַן לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.struck foes his backwards a.reproach of.perpetuity he.gave to them

*JPS 1917:* And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/268.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/268/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).