שׁוּב

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)

Every occurrence

21. 1 Samuel 15:26 אָשׁ֖וּב 'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

22. 1 Samuel 15:30 וְשׁ֣וּב ve.Shuv · A command to you: simple action

    Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

23. 1 Samuel 15:31 וַיָּ֥שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Jehovah.

24. 1 Samuel 17:15 וָשָׁ֖ב va.Shav · An -ing word: simple action

    Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

25. 1 Samuel 17:30 וַיְשִׁבֻ֤הוּ vay.shi.Vu.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And he turned away from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

26. 1 Samuel 17:53 וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.

27. 1 Samuel 17:57 וּכְשׁ֣וּב u.khe.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

28. 1 Samuel 18:2 לָשׁ֖וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

29. 1 Samuel 18:6 בְּשׁ֤וּב be.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.

30. 1 Samuel 23:23 וְשַׁבְתֶּ֤ם ve.shav.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

31. 1 Samuel 23:28 וַיָּ֣שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

32. 1 Samuel 24:1 שָׁ֣ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.

33. 1 Samuel 25:12 וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

34. 1 Samuel 25:21 וַיָּֽשֶׁב־ vai.ya.shev- · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.

35. 1 Samuel 25:39 הֵשִׁ֥יב he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal hath Jehovah returned upon his own head. And David sent and spake concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

36. 1 Samuel 26:21 שׁ֣וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action

    Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

37. 1 Samuel 26:23 יָשִׁ֣יב ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as Jehovah delivered thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed.

38. 1 Samuel 26:25 שָׁ֥ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

39. 1 Samuel 27:9 וַיָּ֖שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned, and came to Achish.

40. 1 Samuel 29:4 הָשֵׁ֣ב ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it

    But he princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for wherewith should this fellow reconcile himself unto his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?

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