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 Samuel 14:13 הָשִׁ֥יב ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.
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2 Samuel 14:21 הָשֵׁ֥ב ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it
And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.
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2 Samuel 15:8 יְשִׁיבֵ֤נִי ye.shi.Ve.ni · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.
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2 Samuel 15:19 שׁ֣וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action
Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king: for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile; return to thine own place.
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2 Samuel 15:20 שׁ֣וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action
Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may? return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with thee.
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2 Samuel 15:20 וְהָשֵׁ֧ב ve.ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it
Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may? return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with thee.
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2 Samuel 15:25 הָשֵׁ֛ב ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
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2 Samuel 15:25 וֶהֱשִׁבַ֕נִי ve.he.shi.Va.ni · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
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2 Samuel 15:27 שֻׁ֥בָה Shu.vah · A command to you: simple action
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art thou not a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
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2 Samuel 15:29 וַיָּ֨שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.
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2 Samuel 15:34 תָּשׁ֗וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
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2 Samuel 16:3 יָשִׁ֤יבוּ ya.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem; for he said, To-day will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
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2 Samuel 16:8 הֵשִׁיב֩ he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Jehovah hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood.
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2 Samuel 16:12 וְהֵשִׁ֨יב ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.
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2 Samuel 17:3 וְאָשִׁ֥יבָה ve.'a.Shi.vah · A wish or plan to act: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
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2 Samuel 17:3 כְּשׁ֣וּב ke.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
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2 Samuel 17:20 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They are gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 18:16 וַיָּ֣שָׁב vai.Ya.sho · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
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2 Samuel 19:10 לְהָשִׁ֥יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
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2 Samuel 19:11 לְהָשִׁ֥יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to bring him to his house.
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