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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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  • Isaiah 37:8
    So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
  • Isaiah 37:29
    Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
  • Isaiah 37:34
    By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
  • Isaiah 37:37
    So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
  • Isaiah 38:8
    Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
  • Isaiah 41:28
    For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
  • Isaiah 42:22
    But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
  • Isaiah 43:13
    Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
  • Isaiah 44:19
    And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
  • Isaiah 44:22
    I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.