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Strong's numbers

שׁוֹבָב H7726

shôwbâb

sho-bawb'

from שׁוּב; apostate, i.e. idolatrous; backsliding, frowardly, turn away (from margin).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

שׁוֹבָב adj. backturning, recusant, apostate

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


4 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Isaiah 57:17
    For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
  • Jeremiah 3:14
    Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
  • Jeremiah 3:22
    Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
  • Jeremiah 50:6
    My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.