'Back' in the Bible

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

And when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's Valley.

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.

Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.

And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.

And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.

And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.

And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.

And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.

And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.

Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?

And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.

When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.

So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.

Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,

He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.

So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.

But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez.

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant.

And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me now;

And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.

Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

Then Joseph gave orders for their bags to be made full of grain, and for every man's money to be put back into his bag, and for food to be given them for the journey: which was done.

And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us?

And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade in the land.

And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.

And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.

And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

And take your brother and go back to the man:

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;

See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

Then in bitter grief they put the bags on the asses again and went back to the town.

Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.

And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.

Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;

And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food.

And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back.

And they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said to them; and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent for them, his spirit came back to him:

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.