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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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  • Jeremiah 29:14
    And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
  • Jeremiah 30:3
    For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
  • Jeremiah 30:10
    Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
  • Jeremiah 30:18
    Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
  • Jeremiah 30:24
    The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
  • Jeremiah 31:8
    Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
  • Jeremiah 31:16
    Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
  • Jeremiah 31:17
    And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
  • Jeremiah 31:18
    I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
  • Jeremiah 31:19
    Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.