1. אָחוֹר
the hinder side, back part
The corpus record — Hebrew
אָחֽוֹר
achowr · subst
the hinder side, back part
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 41 · 1.34/10k
Senses
2. אָחוֹר
the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West
3. אַחור
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Attestations
- אָחֽוֹר Genesis 49:17 (BHS)
- אֲחֹרֵ֥י Exodus 26:12 (BHS)
- אֲחֹרָ֑/י Exodus 33:23 (BHS)
- אָח֑וֹר 2 Samuel 1:22 (BHS)
- וּ/מֵֽ/אָח֑וֹר 2 Samuel 10:9 (BHS)
- אֲחֹֽרֵי/הֶ֖ם 1 Kings 7:25 (BHS)
6 of 41 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.