'Back' in the Bible

“Now, reflect back from this day: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,

I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,’ declares the Lord.

And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.

The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."

They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."

So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth."

And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a flying roll.

And the angel said, "This is evil!" So he shoved her back into the basket and snapped the round, lead cover over the opening.

And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, four chariots are coming forth from between two of the mountains, and the mountains are mountains of brass.

The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth.

And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!

Thus said Jehovah: I have turned back unto Zion, And I have dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem, And Jerusalem hath been called 'The city of truth,' And the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, 'The holy mountain.'

I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem. They will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”

So I have turned back, I have purposed, in these days, To do good with Jerusalem, And with the house of Judah -- fear not!

I will set up camp at My house against an army,against those who march back and forth,and no oppressor will march against them again,for now I have seen with My own eyes.

Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.

"I will fortify the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save. I will surely bring them back, because I care about them. They will be as if I had never cast them away. Since I am the LORD their God, I will answer them.

And I sow them among peoples, And in far-off places they remember Me, And they have lived with their sons, And they have turned back.

I will bring them back from the land of Egyptand gather them from Assyria.I will bring them to the land of Gileadand to Lebanon,but it will not be enough for them.

Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.

Because Edom saith, 'We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And men have called to them, 'O region of wickedness,' 'O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'

The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

"Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.

Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, 'In what do we turn back?'

Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.

You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. When you find Him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship Him.”

And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?

Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he went back to Galilee.

leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come and present your offering.

I tell you with certainty, you will not get out of there until you pay back the last dollar!"

And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him.

While he was saying these things to them, there came a ruler and gave him worship, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and put your hand on her, and she will come back to life.

and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you.

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?

Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ And returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order.

Then he goes and brings back with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they come in and dwell there; and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it was at first. So will it be also with the present wicked generation."

For this people’s heart has grown callous;their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heartsand turn back—and I would cure them.

The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.

Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

"If your brother sins against you, go and confront him while the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

Then the slave threw himself to the ground [and] began to do obeisance to him, saying, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay back everything to you!'

But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe.’

“At this, his fellow slave fell down and began begging him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’

But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed.

Jesus told him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.

and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,

Now when the owner of the vineyard comes back, what will he do to those tenants?”

They say to him, 'Evil men -- he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

“Caesar’s,” they said to Him.Then He said to them, “Therefore give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,

When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.

For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

Blessed [is] that slave whom his master will find so doing [when he] comes back.

then you should have deposited my money with the bankers. And when I returned I would have received my money back with interest.

Now when Jesus was [back] in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper,

But after I am come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee.

When he went back to the disciples, he found them asleep. He told Peter, "So, you men couldn't stay awake with me for one hour, could you?

Then he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open.

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Then Jesus told him, “Put your sword back in its place because all who take up a sword will perish by a sword.

And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.

Then Judas, who had betrayed him, regretted what had happened when he saw that Jesus was condemned. He brought the 30 pieces of silver back to the high priests and elders,

When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

tombs were opened, and many saints who had died were brought back to life.

he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back.

Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.

And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

He is not here: He has come back to life, as He foretold. Come and see the place where He lay.

And go quickly and give his disciples the news that he has come back from the dead, and is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as I have said to you.

When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.

so thatthey may look and look,yet not perceive;they may listen and listen,yet not understand;otherwise, they might turn back—and be forgiven.”

Then He said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear. By your own standard of measurement [that is, to the extent that you study spiritual truth and apply godly wisdom] it will be measured to you [and you will be given even greater ability to respond]—and more will be given to you besides.

But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"

But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.

But Herod, when he had news of it, said, John, whom I put to death, has come back from the dead.

Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring back his head. And he went and had him beheaded in the prison,

And came back with the head on a plate, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.