Achor אָחוֹר

Achor (Hebrew אָחוֹר, Strong's H268) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “back”. It occurs 41 times in 41 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Achor, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 49:17
  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Exodus

• Exodus 26:12
  And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.As for the overlap that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over shall hang down over the back of the tabernacle.
• Exodus 33:23
  And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 1:22
  From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not retreat, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.
• 2 Samuel 10:9
  When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 7:25
  It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 19:10
  Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 4:4
  It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
• 2 Chronicles 13:14
  And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,

Job

• Job 23:8
  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

Psalms

• Psalm 9:3
  When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
• Psalm 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.May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
• Psalm 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.May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
• Psalm 44:10
  Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
• Psalm 44:18
  Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
• Psalm 56:9
  When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
• Psalm 70:2
  Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
• Psalm 78:66
  And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
• Psalm 114:3
  The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
• Psalm 114:5
  What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
• Psalm 129:5
  Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
• Psalm 139:5
  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 29:11
  A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.

Isaiah

• 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 of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
• 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 stretched out still.Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
• Isaiah 28:13
  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.Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
• Isaiah 41:23
  Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.
• Isaiah 42:17
  They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
• Isaiah 42:23
  Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
• Isaiah 44:25
  That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
• Isaiah 50:5
  The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
• Isaiah 59:14
  And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

Jeremiah

• 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.Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They 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.You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
• Jeremiah 38:22
  And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
• Jeremiah 46:5
  Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

Lamentations

• 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 turneth backward.Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
• 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 and faint all the day.He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
• Lamentations 2:3
  He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 2:10
  And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
• 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 five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).