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 19:12 לְהָשִׁ֥יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
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2 Samuel 19:14 שׁ֥וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent unto the king, saying, Return thou, and all thy servants.
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2 Samuel 19:15 וַיָּ֣שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
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2 Samuel 19:37 יָֽשָׁב־ ya.shov- · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
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2 Samuel 19:39 וַיָּ֖שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over: and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
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2 Samuel 19:43 לְהָשִׁ֣יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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2 Samuel 20:22 שָׁ֥ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
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2 Samuel 22:21 יָשִׁ֥יב ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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2 Samuel 22:25 וַיָּ֧שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
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2 Samuel 22:38 אָשׁ֖וּב 'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
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2 Samuel 23:10 יָשֻׁ֥בוּ ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword; and Jehovah wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.
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2 Samuel 24:13 אָשִׁ֥יב 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
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