Hebrew adv · H322
אֲחֹרַנִּית
achorannithakh-o-ran-neeth'
backwards
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼăchôrannîyth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H322is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H322
backwards
The King James renders it: back (-ward, again).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
achorannith is rendered "backwards". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 9:23Then 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.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
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.
Genesis 9:23אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔ית
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- backwards7
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔ית2
- אֲחֹרַנִּ֖ית2
- אֲחֹ֨רַנִּ֜ית1
- אֲחֹֽרַנִּ֖ית1
- אֲחֹרַנִּֽית׃1
The grammar of each form
- adverb7HD
Genesis
two uses
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.
- אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔יתʾachoranitadverbtagged: backwards
- אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔יתʾachoranitadverbtagged: backwards
1 Samuel
one use
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.
- אֲחֹ֨רַנִּ֜יתʾachoranitadverbtagged: backwards
1 Kings
one use
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.”
- אֲחֹרַנִּֽית׃ʾachoranitadverbtagged: backwards
2 Kings
two uses
“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
- אֲחֹרַנִּ֖יתʾachoranitadverbtagged: backwards
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.
- אֲחֹֽרַנִּ֖יתʾachoranitadverbtagged: backwards
Isaiah
one use
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.
- אֲחֹרַנִּ֖יתʾachoranitadverbtagged: backwards
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.