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Meaning of “back”

Sense 1: The rear part; a position or direction behind. Sense 2: A return to a former place or condition.

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First occurrence: Genesis 14:16

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2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 18:16 · retained source text

And Ioab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Ioab helde backe the people.

2 Samuel 19:10
And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 19:10 · retained source text

And Absalom whom wee anointed ouer vs, is dead in battell: nowe therefore why speake ye not a word of bringing the king backe?

1611 marginal noteHeb are ye silent?

2 Samuel 19:11
¶ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 19:11 · retained source text

¶ And King Dauid sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speake vnto the Elders of Iudah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king backe to his house? (seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, euen to his house.)

2 Samuel 19:12
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 19:12 · retained source text

Yee are my brethren, Yee are my bones and my flesh: wherfore then are ye the last to bring backe the king?

2 Samuel 19:37
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 19:37 · retained source text

Let thy seruant, I pray thee, turne backe againe, that I may die in mine owne citie, and be buried by the graue of my father, and of my mother: but behold thy seruant Chimham, let him go ouer with my lord the king, and doe to him what shall seeme good vnto thee.

2 Samuel 19:43
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 19:43 · retained source text

And the men of Israel answered the men of Iudah, and said, Wee haue ten parts in the king, and we haue also more right in Dauid then yee: why then did yee despise vs, that our aduice should not be first had in bringing backe our king? And the wordes of the men of Iudah were fiercer then the words of the men of Israel.

1611 marginal noteHebr. set vs at light.

1 Kings 13:18
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Kings 13:18 · retained source text

He said vnto him, I am a prophet also as thou art, and an angel spake vnto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him backe with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread, and drinke water: But he lied vnto him.

1 Kings 13:19
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Kings 13:19 · retained source text

So he went backe with him, and did eate bread in his house, and dranke water.

1 Kings 13:20
¶ And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Kings 13:20 · retained source text

¶ And it came to passe as they sate at the table, that the word of the LORD came vnto the prophet that brought him backe:

1 Kings 13:22
But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Kings 13:22 · retained source text

But camest backe, and hast eaten bread, and drunke water, in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eate no bread, and drinke no water; thy carcaise shall not come vnto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

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