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שׁוּב H7725

shûwb

shoob

a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again; ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) [idiom] again, (cause to) answer ([phrase] again), [idiom] in any case (wise), [idiom] at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, [idiom] certainly, come again (back), [idiom] consider, [phrase] continually, convert, deliver (again), [phrase] deny, draw back, fetch home again, [idiom] fro, get (oneself) (back) again, [idiom] give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, [idiom] needs, be past, [idiom] pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, [phrase] say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, [idiom] surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

שׁוּב 1056 vb. turn back, return
Qal 683;—turn back, return:
1 turn back
2 return, come or go back
3 esp. return unto
4
a of dying
b of revival from death
5 fig. of human relations:
a return to leader, king
b = change so as to appoach (in purpose, desire)
c turn, i.e. resort to
d return to a physical condition
e abs. = change course of action
6 fig., specif. of spiritual relations:
a turn back from God = apostatize
b of י׳, turn away
c turn back to God (= seek penitently)
d abs. repent
e turn back from evil
f of י׳
g of י׳, return (to shew favour)
7 of inanimate things (sts. personified, or treated as things of life):
8 denoting repetition, etc.
9 trans.
Pō‛l.
1 bring back
2
a fig. restore, refresh
b restore, repair
3 lead away (enticingly)
4 shew turning = apostatize
Hiph. 353 cause to return, bring back
1
a bring back into bondage
b put back
c = draw back
d = give back, restore
e = relinguish
f = give in payment, requital
g bring one back (from dead)
2
a bring back heart
b = refresh
3 bring back words of people
4
a bring back (in retribution) upon
b pay as recompense
5 turn back, backward = repel, defeat
6
a turn away face
b late, turn toward, acc. face
7 turn against
8 bring back to mind, take into consideration
9
10 = shew a turning away from your idols (i.e. turn away)
11 reverse, revoke = repel, defeat
Hoph. my money has been returned

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


952 occurrences

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  • Deuteronomy 20:8
    And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
  • Deuteronomy 22:1
    Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
  • Deuteronomy 22:2
    And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
  • Deuteronomy 23:13
    And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
  • Deuteronomy 23:14
    For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
  • Deuteronomy 24:4
    Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
  • Deuteronomy 24:13
    In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
  • Deuteronomy 24:19
    When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
  • Deuteronomy 28:31
    Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
  • Deuteronomy 28:60
    Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.