Back, Back Parts
Back, Back Parts
(1) , ‘ahar, back side as in the King James Version): He led the flock to the back of the wilderness (Exo 3:1), i.e. to the pasture-lands on the other side of the desert from the Midianite encampments.
(2) , ‘ahor, hinder part, the West): Used of God in an anthropomorphic sense (Thou shalt see my back, Exo 33:23) to signify the after-glow of the Divine radiance, the faint reflection of God’s essential glory. See also Isa 38:17 and compare 1Ki 14:9 and Neh 9:26.
(3) , opisthen, back side): A book written within and on the back (Rev 5:1), but the back of a book is not the same as the reverse side of a roll. John was struck, not only with the fact that the roll was sealed, but also with the amount of writing it contained (HDB, I, 231). Compare Eze 2:10.