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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2 Kings 1:5 וַיָּשׁ֥וּבוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it that ye are returned?
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2 Kings 1:5 שַׁבְתֶּֽם׃ shav.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you
And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it that ye are returned?
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2 Kings 1:6 שׁוּבוּ֮ shu.Vu · A command to all of you: simple action
And they said unto him, There came up a man to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
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2 Kings 1:11 וַיָּ֜שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
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2 Kings 1:13 וַיָּ֗שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
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2 Kings 2:13 וַיָּ֥שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
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2 Kings 2:18 וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
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2 Kings 2:25 שָׁ֥ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
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2 Kings 3:4 וְהֵשִׁ֤יב ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.
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2 Kings 3:27 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
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2 Kings 4:22 וְאָשֽׁוּבָה׃ ve.'a.Shu.vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
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2 Kings 4:31 וַיָּ֤שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
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2 Kings 4:35 וַיָּ֜שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
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2 Kings 4:38 שָׁ֤ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
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2 Kings 5:10 וְיָשֹׁ֧ב ve.ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
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2 Kings 5:14 וַיָּ֣שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
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2 Kings 5:15 וַיָּשָׁב֩ vai.ya.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a present of thy servant.
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2 Kings 7:8 וַיָּשֻׁ֗בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And when these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
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2 Kings 7:15 וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And they went after them unto the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
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2 Kings 8:3 וַתָּ֥שָׁב va.Ta.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
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