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 12:12 שָׁ֤ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And when he humbled himself, the wrath of Jehovah turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found.

  2. 2 Chronicles 14:15 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

  3. 2 Chronicles 15:4 וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    But when in their distress they turned unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

  4. 2 Chronicles 18:16 יָשׁ֥וּבוּ ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Jehovah said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.

  5. 2 Chronicles 18:25 וַהֲשִׁיבֻ֖הוּ va.ha.shi.Vu.hu · A command to all of you: causing it

    And the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

  6. 2 Chronicles 18:26 שׁוּבִ֥י shu.Vi · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

  7. 2 Chronicles 18:27 שׁ֤וֹב Shov · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.

  8. 2 Chronicles 18:27 תָּשׁוּב֙ ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.

  9. 2 Chronicles 18:32 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

  10. 2 Chronicles 19:1 וַ֠יָּשָׁב vai.ya.sho · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

  11. 2 Chronicles 19:4 וַיָּ֜שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back unto Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

  12. 2 Chronicles 19:4 וַיְשִׁיבֵ֕ם vay.shi.Vem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back unto Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

  13. 2 Chronicles 19:8 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of Jehovah, and for controversies. And they returned to Jerusalem.

  14. 2 Chronicles 20:27 וַ֠יָּשֻׁבוּ Vai.ya.shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Jehovah had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

  15. 2 Chronicles 20:27 לָשׁ֥וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Jehovah had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

  16. 2 Chronicles 22:6 וַיָּ֜שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

  17. 2 Chronicles 24:11 וִֽישִׁיבֻ֣הוּ vi.shi.Vu.hu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought unto the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

  18. 2 Chronicles 24:19 לַהֲשִׁיבָ֖ם la.ha.shi.Vam · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto Jehovah; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  19. 2 Chronicles 25:10 וַיָּשׁ֥וּבוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.

  20. 2 Chronicles 25:13 הֵשִׁ֤יב he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote of them three thousand, and took much spoil.

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