SG Heritage Dictionary

Rear [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Raw; rare; not well roasted or boiled.

2. Early. [A provincial word.]

Rear [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In a general sense, that which is behind or backwards; appropriately, the part of an army which is behind the other, either when standing on parade or when marching; also, the part of a fleet which is behind the other. It is opposed to front or van. Bring up the rear

2. The last class; the last in order.

3. Coins I place in the rear

4. In the rear behind the rest; backward, or in the last class. In this phrase, rear signifies the part or place behind.

Rear [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To raise.

2. Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank your tribes?

3. To lift after a fall.

4. In adoration at his feet I fell submiss; he rear'd me.

5. To bring up or to raise to maturity, as young; as, to rear a numerous offspring.

6. To educate; to instruct.

7. He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.

8. To exalt; to elevate.

9. Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, softens the high, and rears the abject mind.

10. To rouse; to stir up.

11. And seeks the tusky boar to rear

12. To raise; to breed; as cattle.

13. To achieve; to obtain.

14. To rear the steps, to ascend; to move upward.

Rear [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

Rear [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Early; soon.

Rear [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.

2. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

Rear [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

Rear [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

2. To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.

3. To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.

4. To lift and take up.

5. To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.

6. To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.

7. To rouse; to stir up.

Rear-admiral [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

REAR-ADMIRAL . [ See Admiral .]

Rear-guard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The body of an army that marches in the rear of the main body to protect it.

Rear-horse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mantis.

Rear-line [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The line in the rear of an army.

Rear-mouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The leather-winged bat.

Rear-rank [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The rank of a body of troops which is in the rear.

Reardorse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Reardoss

Reardoss [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A reredos.

Reared [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Raised; lifted; brought up; educated; elevated.

Reared [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Rear

Rearer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, rears.

Reargue [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To argue anew or again.

Reargument [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.

Rearing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Raising; educating; elevating.

Rearing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Rear

Rearly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Early.

Rearmost [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Farthest in the rear; last.

Rearmouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Reremouse

Rearrange [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.

Rearrangement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

Rearward [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The last troop; the rear-guard.

2. The end; the tail; the train behind.

3. The latter part.

Rearward [Adjective and adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

At or toward the rear.

Rearward [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively.

King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

14 KJV and 21 BSB verses contain “Rear” — showing the first 20. Show all 35 verses (searchable)

Genesis 33:2

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

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

Exodus 26:22

And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

Make six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side,

Exodus 26:27

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, for the two sides westward.

five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

Exodus 26:30

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

So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

Exodus 36:27

And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

He made six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side,

Exodus 36:32

And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.

five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

Exodus 40:17

And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Exodus 40:18

And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

Exodus 40:33

And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

Leviticus 26:1

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

Numbers 9:15

And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

Numbers 10:25

And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Finally, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for all units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.

Joshua 6:9

And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

While the horns continued to sound, the armed troops marched ahead of the priests who blew the horns, and the rear guard followed the ark.

Joshua 6:13

And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

And the seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns kept marching ahead of the ark of the LORD and blowing the horns. The armed troops went in front of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the horns kept sounding.

Joshua 8:13

And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.

1 Samuel 17:35

And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.

During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

2 Samuel 24:18

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.

And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

1 Kings 6:16

And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

1 Kings 16:32

And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.