שׁוּב

shuv · to return: return

Hebrew · Strong's H7725 · Verb · Sounds like: shoob · 1,057 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to return: return H7725G 628
  • to return: rescue H7725H · a Meaning of 108
  • to return: turn back H7725I · a Meaning of 92
  • to return: repent H7725O · a Meaning of 82
  • to return: again H7725J · a Meaning of 75
  • to return: pay H7725K · a Meaning of 32
  • to return: reply H7725M · a Meaning of 29
  • to return: recall H7725N · a Meaning of 7
  • to return: refuse H7725L · a Meaning of 4

Strong's dictionary

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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (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

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Kings 2:16 תָּשִׁ֖בִי ta.Shi.vi · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And now I ask one petition of thee; deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

  2. 1 Kings 2:17 יָשִׁ֖יב ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king (for he will not say thee nay), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

  3. 1 Kings 2:20 תָּ֖שֶׁב Ta.shev · A mild command: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Then she said, I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.

  4. 1 Kings 2:20 אָשִׁ֖יב 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Then she said, I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.

  5. 1 Kings 2:30 וַיָּ֨שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Benaiah came to the Tent of Jehovah, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.

  6. 1 Kings 2:32 וְהֵשִׁיב֩ ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

  7. 1 Kings 2:33 וְשָׁ֤בוּ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    So shall their blood return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Jehovah.

  8. 1 Kings 2:41 וַיָּשֹֽׁב׃ vai.ya.Sho · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

  9. 1 Kings 2:44 וְהֵשִׁ֧יב ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore Jehovah shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.

  10. 1 Kings 8:33 וְשָׁ֤בוּ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    When thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; if they turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house:

  11. 1 Kings 8:34 וַהֲשֵֽׁבֹתָם֙ va.ha.she.vo.Tam · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by you

    then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

  12. 1 Kings 8:35 יְשׁוּב֖וּן ye.shu.Vun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

  13. 1 Kings 8:47 וְהֵשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ ve.he.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by them

    yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

  14. 1 Kings 8:47 וְשָׁ֣בוּ׀ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

  15. 1 Kings 8:48 וְשָׁ֣בוּ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

  16. 1 Kings 9:6 שׁ֨וֹב Shov · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  17. 1 Kings 9:6 תְּשֻׁב֜וּן te.shu.Vun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  18. 1 Kings 12:5 וְשׁ֣וּבוּ ve.Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.

  19. 1 Kings 12:6 לְהָשִׁ֥יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

  20. 1 Kings 12:9 וְנָשִׁ֥יב ve.na.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?

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