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   move back
         v 1: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew";
               "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: {withdraw},
               {retreat}, {pull away}, {draw back}, {recede}, {pull back},
               {retire}, {move back}] [ant: {advance}, {go on}, {march
               on}, {move on}, {pass on}, {progress}]

English Dictionary: move back by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
move back and forth
v
  1. move in one direction and then into the opposite direction
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Mephibosheth
      exterminator of shame; i.e., of idols. (1.) The name of Saul's
      son by the concubine Rizpah (q.v.), the daughter of Aiah. He and
      his brother Armoni were with five others "hanged on a hill
      before the Lord" by the Gibeonites, and their bodies exposed in
      the sun for five months (2 Sam. 21:8-10). (2.) The son of
      Jonathan, and grandson of Saul (2 Sam. 4:4). He was but five
      years old when his father and grandfather fell on Mount Gilboa.
      The child's nurse hearing of this calamity, fled with him from
      Gibeah, the royal residence, and stumbling in her haste, the
      child was thrown to the ground and maimed in both his feet, and
      ever after was unable to walk (19:26). He was carried to the
      land of Gilead, where he found a refuge in the house of Machir,
      the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar, by whom he was brought up.
     
         Some years after this, when David had subdued all the
      adversaries of Israel, he began to think of the family of
      Jonathan, and discovered that Mephibosheth was residing in the
      house of Machir. Thither he sent royal messengers, and brought
      him and his infant son to Jerusalem, where he ever afterwards
      resided (2 Sam. 9).
     
         When David was a fugitive, according to the story of Ziba (2
      Sam. 16:1-4) Mephibosheth proved unfaithful to him, and was
      consequently deprived of half of his estates; but according to
      his own story, however (19:24-30), he had remained loyal to his
      friend. After this incident he is only mentioned as having been
      protected by David against the vengeance the Gibeonites were
      permitted to execute on the house of Saul (21:7). He is also
      called Merib-baal (1 Chr. 8:34; 9:40). (See {ZIBA}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Mephibosheth, out of my mouth proceeds reproach
  
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