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 25:24 וַיָּ֖שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

  2. 2 Chronicles 26:2 וַיְשִׁיבֶ֖הָ vay.shi.Ve.ha · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

  3. 2 Chronicles 27:5 הֵשִׁ֤יבוּ he.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render unto him, in the second year also, and in the third.

  4. 2 Chronicles 28:11 וְהָשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ ve.ha.Shi.vu · A command to all of you: causing it

    Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that ye have taken captive of your brethren; for the fierce wrath of Jehovah is upon you.

  5. 2 Chronicles 28:15 וַיָּשׁ֖וּבוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And the men that have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

  6. 2 Chronicles 29:10 וְיָשֹׁ֥ב ve.ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

  7. 2 Chronicles 30:6 שׁ֚וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

  8. 2 Chronicles 30:6 וְיָשֹׁב֙ ve.ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

  9. 2 Chronicles 30:8 וְיָשֹׁ֥ב ve.ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

  10. 2 Chronicles 30:9 בְשׁוּבְכֶ֞ם ve.shu.ve.Khem · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  11. 2 Chronicles 30:9 וְלָשׁ֖וּב ve.la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  12. 2 Chronicles 30:9 תָּשׁ֖וּבוּ ta.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  13. 2 Chronicles 31:1 וַיָּשׁ֜וּבוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  14. 2 Chronicles 32:21 וַיָּשָׁב֩ vai.ya.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth from his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

  15. 2 Chronicles 32:25 הֵשִׁ֣יב he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

  16. 2 Chronicles 33:3 וַיָּ֗שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  17. 2 Chronicles 33:13 וַיְשִׁיבֵ֥הוּ vay.shi.Ve.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.

  18. 2 Chronicles 34:7 וַיָּ֖שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

  19. 2 Chronicles 34:9 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ ve.yo.she.vei · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  20. 2 Chronicles 34:16 וַיָּ֨שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they are doing.

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