a.cho.ran.nit marks movement or turning in the reverse direction, including a fall, a walk, and a returning shadow.

The attested use marks movement or direction reversed: people walk or fall in that direction, a heart is turned that way, and a shadow is made to return along the steps. The shadow accounts form the largest cluster, while the remaining verses apply the same directional idea to bodily movement and turning.

1. A shadow returning along the steps · dominant

   In 2 Kings 20:10 the adverb occurs in the request that the shadow go back ten steps; 2 Kings 20:11 reports that the shadow was brought back on Ahaz's stairway. Isaiah 38:8 likewise presents the sun's shadow returning ten steps after it had gone down.

   2 Kings 20:102 Kings 20:11Isaiah 38:8
2. Reverse direction in movement or turning · common

   In Genesis 9:23 the adverb accompanies Shem and Japheth's walk as they cover their father's nakedness, while their faces are turned in the same direction. In 1 Samuel 4:18 it accompanies the fall from the throne, and in 1 Kings 18:37 it occurs in the clause asking that the people's heart be turned in that direction.

   Genesis 9:231 Samuel 4:181 Kings 18:37

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB presents the directional idea with “backward,” “back,” and “backwards”: a fall, a walk and turned faces, a turned heart, and a shadow's return. Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings indicate the verse contexts rather than a fixed English equivalent.