KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Toward the back, with the back foremost, or in reverse. Sense 2: Figuratively, into defeat, decline, rebellion, or perverted judgment.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 9:23
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
And Shem and Iaphet tooke a garment, and layed it vpon both their shoulders, and went backward, and couered the nakednesse of their father, and their faces were backward, and they saw not their fathers nakednesse.
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.
Dan shalbe a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heeles, so that his rider shall fall backward.
1611 marginal noteHeb. an arrow-snake.
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Historical English dictionary sources
With the back in advance; toward the back; on the back; in reverse order; in Scripture, to rebel or relapse, to be defeated or disappointed, or to pervert judgment, according to the phrase.
