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 Kings 8:6 הָשֵׁ֤יב ha.Sheiv · A command to you: causing it

    And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

  2. 2 Kings 8:29 וַיָּשָׁב֩ vai.ya.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

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

  3. 2 Kings 9:15 וַיָּשָׁב֩ vai.ya.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.

  4. 2 Kings 9:18 שָֽׁב׃ Shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not back.

  5. 2 Kings 9:20 שָׁ֑ב Shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

  6. 2 Kings 9:36 וַיָּשֻׁבוּ֮ vai.ya.shu.Vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said, This is the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;

  7. 2 Kings 13:25 וַיָּ֜שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash smite him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

  8. 2 Kings 13:25 וַיָּ֖שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash smite him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

  9. 2 Kings 14:14 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 Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

  10. 2 Kings 14:22 וַיְשִׁבֶ֖הָ vay.shi.Ve.ha · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

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

  11. 2 Kings 14:25 הֵשִׁיב֙ he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel, which he spake by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.

  12. 2 Kings 14:28 הֵשִׁ֜יב he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

  13. 2 Kings 15:20 וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

  14. 2 Kings 16:6 הֵ֠שִׁיב He.shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there, unto this day.

  15. 2 Kings 17:3 וַיָּ֥שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

  16. 2 Kings 17:13 שֻׁ֝֠בוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

  17. 2 Kings 18:14 שׁ֣וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action

    And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

  18. 2 Kings 18:24 תָּשִׁ֗יב ta.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

  19. 2 Kings 19:7 וְשָׁ֣ב ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

  20. 2 Kings 19:8 וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

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