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. 2 Chronicles 6:23 לְהָשִׁ֣יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

  2. 2 Chronicles 6:24 וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And if thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

  3. 2 Chronicles 6:25 וַהֲשֵׁיבוֹתָם֙ va.ha.shei.vo.Tam · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by you

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

  4. 2 Chronicles 6:26 יְשׁוּב֖וּן ye.shu.Vun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    When the heavens are 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:

  5. 2 Chronicles 6:37 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 their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;

  6. 2 Chronicles 6:37 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 their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;

  7. 2 Chronicles 6:38 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 captivity, whither they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

  8. 2 Chronicles 6:42 תָּשֵׁ֖ב ta.Shev · A mild command: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    O Jehovah God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember thy lovingkindnesses to David thy servant.

  9. 2 Chronicles 7:14 וְיָשֻׁ֖בוּ ve.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

  10. 2 Chronicles 7:19 תְּשׁוּב֣וּן te.shu.Vun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  11. 2 Chronicles 10:2 וַיָּ֥שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon,) that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

  12. 2 Chronicles 10:5 וְשׁ֣וּבוּ ve.Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

  13. 2 Chronicles 10:6 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?

  14. 2 Chronicles 10:9 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?

  15. 2 Chronicles 10:12 שׁ֥וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.

  16. 2 Chronicles 10:16 וַיָּשִׁ֣יבוּ vai.ya.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So all Israel departed unto their tents.

  17. 2 Chronicles 11:1 לְהָשִׁ֥יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

  18. 2 Chronicles 11:4 שׁ֚וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

  19. 2 Chronicles 11:4 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

  20. 2 Chronicles 12:11 וֶהֱשִׁב֖וּם ve.he.shi.Vum · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by them

    And it was so, that, as oft as the king entered into the house of Jehovah, the guard came and bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

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