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
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.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their eare, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their euill heart, and went backward, and not forward.
1611 marginal noteOr, stubburnnesse.
1611 marginal noteHebr. were.
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.
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 wearie with repenting.
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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.
