40 occurrences in 12 translations

'Rear' in the Bible

He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Verse ConceptsPartialityOrder Of MarchLast OnesIn Front

And the messenger of God, who is going before the camp of Israel, journeyeth and goeth at their rear; and the pillar of the cloud journeyeth from their front, and standeth at their rear,

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordGuardiansDivine ManifestationsHeaven And AngelsAngels Helping UsThe Angel Of GodObelisksGod Going BeforeCamping During The ExodusAngelic Guardianshipmovement

And that which remaineth hanging over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the rear of the tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsLengthSurplusResidueHalf Of ThingsBack Of Things

On the west you are to make six boards for the rear of the tent,

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsWest SidesBack Of Things

and you are to make two boards for the rear corners of the tent.

Verse ConceptsCornersTwo Parts Of Constructions

and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward;

Verse ConceptsFive ThingsWest SidesBack Of Things

And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.

Verse ConceptsPlansDivine PlansDesignPatterns

For the rear of the tent on the west he made six boards,

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsWest SidesBack Of Things

and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear, westward.

Verse ConceptsFive ThingsWest SidesBack Of Things

On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsMonthTent Of MeetingTypes Of ChristCalendarsThe Tabernacle

All those numbered of the camp of Dan are a hundred thousand, and seven and fifty thousand, and six hundred; at the rear they journey, by their standards.

Verse ConceptsOne Hundred Thousand And MoreLast Ones

how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourTirednessNo Fear Of GodTired In PursuitEnemy Attackstired

and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spoil and its cattle ye spoil for yourselves; set for thee an ambush for the city at its rear.'

Verse ConceptsCattle

and commandeth them, saying, 'See, ye are liers in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, ye go not very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far Away

and they set the people, all the camp which is on the north of the city, and its rear on the west of the city, and Joshua goeth on that night into the midst of the valley.

Verse ConceptsWest Sides

And it cometh to pass, when the king of Ai seeth it, that hasten, and rise early, and go out do the men of the city to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at the appointed season, at the front of the plain, and he hath not known that an ambush is against him, on the rear of the city.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing The FutureThose Who Rose Early

but do not stay there yourselves; pursue your enemies and attack them in the rear. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand.”

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSmitingThose God Gave Into Their HandsEnemy Attacks

The Levite replied, “We are passing through from Bethlehem [in the territory] of Judah to the most remote part of the hill country of Ephraim; I am from there. I went to Bethlehem of Judah, but I am now going [home] to my house, and there is no man [in the city] who will take me into his house [for the night].

Verse ConceptsNot Welcoming People

The Philistine leaders were passing in review among the military units, and David and his men were among them in the rear with Achish.

Verse ConceptsRulersFighting Together

So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there.

Verse ConceptsSix To Seven HundredSix Hundred And Above

But Asahel refused to turn away; so Abner struck him in the abdomen with the butt end of his spear, and the spear came out his back; and he fell there and died on that spot. And it came about that everyone who came to the place where Asahel fell and died, stood still [and reflected].

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

When David asked the LORD about it, he said, "Don't attack them directly. Instead, go around to the rear and attack them opposite those balsam trees.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodTreesFalling

Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him in front and in the rear, he selected from all the choice men of Israel, and arrayed them against the Arameans.

Verse ConceptsFront And BackSpiritual Warfarereinforcement

And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Verse ConceptsCommemorationAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

Then he lined 30 feet of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling, and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy PlaceDimensions Of ChambersCedar Wood

It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

Verse ConceptsWestThree AnimalsFacing NorthNorth, South, East And WestTwelve Animals

Six steps led up to the throne, which had a round canopy fastened to the rear of the throne and armrests on each side of the seat and two lions standing on either side of each armrest.

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsStepsTwo Animals

Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him in front and in the rear, he selected from all the choice men of Israel and they arrayed themselves against the Arameans.

And the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and rear an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Verse ConceptsAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

But Jeroboam had sent an ambush to attack from the rear, so Israel was in front of Judah, with the ambush set in place behind them.

When the army of Judah turned around to look, they were being attacked from both front and rear, so they cried out to the LORD while the priests sounded their trumpets.

Verse ConceptsCrying To God

Then next to him Uriah's son Meremoth, grandson of Hakkoz, repaired another section from the door of Eliashib's house as far as the rear of the property,

Your mother [Babylon] shall be greatly shamed;She who gave you birth will be ashamed.Behold, she will be the least of the nations,A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

Verse ConceptsBabylonWildernessDry PlacesShame Will ComeDeserts Used Figuratively

Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court,

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Buildings

Then the angel brought me in through an entrance beside the gate into the north-facing chambers dedicated to the priests. As I looked toward the rear of the far western end, I saw a place

Verse ConceptsWest SidesRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them!

Verse ConceptsLeavingBereavementWoe To Israel And JerusalemRaising Children

And the northern I put far off from you, And have driven him unto a land dry and desolate, With his face unto the eastern sea, And his rear unto the western sea, And come up hath his stink, And come up doth his stench, For he hath exerted himself to work.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessBarren, LandSmellsMediterranean SeaDead SeaReturn From The NorthDry PlacesFront And Back

I will scatter them among the nations, and so they will remember me in distant countries. They will rear their children, and they will return.

Verse ConceptsRemnantGod Scattering IsraelReturning to their landFar From HereLiving OnBelievers Remembering God

Bible Theasaurus

Background (3 instances)
Backside (3 instances)
Behind (289 instances)
Bottom (41 instances)
Buttocks (3 instances)
Erect (29 instances)
Fundament (1 instance)
Hindquarters (2 instances)
Parent (5 instances)
Rearward (6 instances)
Stern (11 instances)

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