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Backward (39 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) Alt. of Backwards. 2. (a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward
glances. ... 5. (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season. ...
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Rock (176 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath;
as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or ...
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Backwards (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. (adv.)
Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. ...
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Back (5096 Occurrences)
... 15. (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action. 16. ... 18. (vi) To drive or
force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen. 19. ...
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Degrees (18 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down
ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. ...
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Dial (2 Occurrences)
... And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten
steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. ...
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Lapse (9 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward,
backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. ...
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Reverse (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite
or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method. ...
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Behind (188 Occurrences)
... 5. (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind. 6 ...
7. (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past. 8 ...
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Blush (16 Occurrences)
... YLT). Psalms 35:4 They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned
backward and confounded, Those devising my evil. (YLT). ...
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Batter (1 Occurrence)
... 7. (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. 8.
(vi) To slope gently backward. 9. (n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman. ...
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Abashed (7 Occurrences)
... Psalms 40:14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my
soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That ...
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Sway (7 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias;
to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion ...
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Disappointed (69 Occurrences)
... Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. ... Psalms
129:5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. ...
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Dishonor (47 Occurrences)
... soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor
who delight in my hurt. (WEB ASV NAS RSV). Psalms 44:9 But ...
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Stumbled (47 Occurrences)
... Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little
here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been ...
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Adversity (54 Occurrences)
... Psalms 40:14 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after
my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take ...
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Incline (38 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 20:10 And Hezekiah saith, 'It hath been light for the shadow to incline
ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow turn backward ten degrees.' (YLT). ...
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Eli (36 Occurrences)
... old man, whose eyes were "stiffened" (ie, fixed, as of a blind eye unaffected by
the light) with age, heard this sad story of woe, he fell backward from off ...
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Taketh (398 Occurrences)
... Genesis 9:23 And Shem taketh -- Japheth also -- the garment, and they place on the
shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their ...
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Shadow (72 Occurrences)
... go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). 2 Kings 20:11 ...
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Falleth (119 Occurrences)
... Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That biteth
the horse's heels, So that his rider falleth backward. (ASV DBY JPS YLT). ...
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Backslidings (5 Occurrences)

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Steps (113 Occurrences)
... go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps."
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV). 2 Kings 20:11 Isaiah the prophet ...
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Ashamed (131 Occurrences)
... Psalms 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. ...
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Turns (80 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 44:25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who
turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; (WEB RSV NIV). ...
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Ahaz (42 Occurrences)
... And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten
steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. ...
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Hating (95 Occurrences)
... shame. (YLT). Psalms 44:10 Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary,
And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves. (YLT). ...
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Confusion (71 Occurrences)
... Psalms 40:14 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after
my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take ...
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Desiring (108 Occurrences)
... Psalms 40:14 They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to
destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my ...
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Viper (8 Occurrences)
... Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites
the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward. (See RSV NIV). ...
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Vessels (210 Occurrences)
... be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take
them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward; (YLT ...
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Ziba (13 Occurrences)
... with his sons and servants, as we are told in a parenthesis in 2 Samuel 19:17, 18
a (Hebrew verses 18, 19a), by means of a ferry-boat goes backward and forward ...
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Kick (8 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot
or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse ...
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Lengthen (9 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 20:10 Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward
ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps." (See RSV). ...
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Liars (14 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 44:25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who
turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; (WEB KJV ASV DBY ...
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Loaded (21 Occurrences)
... corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of
Israel. They are estranged and backward. (WEB NIV). Isaiah ...
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Laden (14 Occurrences)
... 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...
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Leg (24 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward
in bowing. 5. (n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. ...
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Lake (45 Occurrences)
... with fire and brimstone." The brimstone in connection with "the lake of fire" occurs
also in Revelation 19:20 and 10, the latter being a backward reference to ...
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Grievously (17 Occurrences)
... sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise
her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward. ...
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Genealogy (29 Occurrences)
... Version, margin "the genealogy of Jesus Christ"; a family register, or register
of families, as 1 Chronicles 4:33, etc.; the tracing backward or forward of the ...
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Griefs (7 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Psalms 16:4 Multiplied are their griefs, 'Who' have hastened backward; I
pour not out their libations of blood, Nor do I take up their names on my lips. ...
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Groans (9 Occurrences)
... sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise
her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward. ...
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Wards (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion
or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc. ...
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Withdrew (55 Occurrences)
... (WEB WEY ASV NAS RSV NIV). John 6:66 From this 'time' many of his disciples went
away backward, and were no more walking with him, (See NAS). ...
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Wash (105 Occurrences)
... water. 25. (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action
of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. 26. ...
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Inclinations (3 Occurrences)
... 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels,
even in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not ...
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Imposters (1 Occurrence)
... Isaiah 44:25 that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (See JPS). ...
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Immortality (6 Occurrences)
... so much of our modern thinking, of an "immortality of the soul," of an imperishableness
of the spiritual part, sometimes supposed to extend backward as well as ...
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Inclined (23 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Immortal (3 Occurrences)
... so much of our modern thinking, of an "immortality of the soul," of an imperishableness
of the spiritual part, sometimes supposed to extend backward as well as ...
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Frustrates (5 Occurrences)
... (WEB NIV). Isaiah 44:25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners
mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; (WEB RSV) ...
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Forwards (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) Toward a part or place before or in front;
onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward. ...
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Fro (54 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word
to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To. 2. (prep.) From. ...
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Fettered (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain
animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking. ...
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Frustrateth (3 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (KJV JPS ...
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Territory (140 Occurrences)
... marked "scientific frontier" exists, and on this the one really accessible side,
history bears witness that the frontier has been pushed backward and forward. ...
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Tokens (11 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (KJV JPS ...
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Twenty-fourth (9 Occurrences)
... Haggai 2:18 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth
day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple ...
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Tumbles (1 Occurrence)
... Tumbles (1 Occurrence). Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder
in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward. ...
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Reflect (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (v.) To bend back; to give a backward turn to; to throw back; especially, to
cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of ...
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Reserved (28 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in
communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. ...
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Radiant (14 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet,
when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate. Int. ...
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Rider (26 Occurrences)
... (WEY NIV). Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path,
That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward. ...
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Retreating (1 Occurrence)
... they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down,
and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh ...
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Recoil (1 Occurrence)
... shrink. 2. (vi) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse
motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. 3 ...
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Relenting (3 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 15:6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore
have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with ...
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Reflected (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected
glory. 4. (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Rout (6 Occurrences)
... Job 32:13 Beware lest you say,'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'
(See NAS). Psalms 78:66 He struck his adversaries backward. ...
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Repenting (6 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 15:6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore
have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with ...
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Easy (14 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 20:10 Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward
ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps." (See NAS RSV). ...
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Estranged (12 Occurrences)
... corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel.
They are estranged and backward. (WEB ASV RSV). Jeremiah ...
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Deep (237 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal
dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as ...
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Dishonored (17 Occurrences)
... after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor
who delight in my hurt. (See NAS). Psalms 69:6 Don't ...
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Depth (22 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward
from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the ...
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Decline (10 Occurrences)
... (KJV DBY WBS). 2 Kings 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the
shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. ...
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Devising (18 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Psalms 35:4 They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned
backward and confounded, Those devising my evil. (YLT). ...
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Declined (11 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 20:11 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten
steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz. (See RSV). ...
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