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)
Every occurrence
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1 Samuel 29:4 וְיָשֹׁב֙ ve.ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or 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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1 Samuel 29:7 שׁ֖וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
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1 Samuel 29:11 לָשׁ֖וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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1 Samuel 30:12 וַתָּ֥שָׁב va.Ta.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
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1 Samuel 30:19 הֵשִׁ֥יב he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.