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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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  • Hosea 5:4
    They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
  • Hosea 5:15
    I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
  • Hosea 6:1
    Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
  • Hosea 6:11
    Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
  • Hosea 7:10
    And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
  • Hosea 7:16
    They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
  • Hosea 8:13
    They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
  • Hosea 9:3
    They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
  • Hosea 11:5
    He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
  • Hosea 11:9
    I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.