שׁוּב

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)

Every occurrence

1. Ecclesiastes 1:6 שָׁ֥ב shav · An -ing word: simple action

   The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.

2. Ecclesiastes 1:7 שָׁבִ֖ים sha.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

   All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

3. Ecclesiastes 3:20 שָׁ֥ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

4. Ecclesiastes 4:1 וְשַׁ֣בְתִּֽי ve.Shav.ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

   Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

5. Ecclesiastes 4:7 וְשַׁ֧בְתִּי ve.Shav.ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

   Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

6. Ecclesiastes 5:15 יָשׁ֥וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

7. Ecclesiastes 9:11 שַׁ֜בְתִּי Shav.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

8. Ecclesiastes 12:2 וְשָׁ֥בוּ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

   before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

9. Ecclesiastes 12:7 וְיָשֹׁ֧ב ve.ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

10. Ecclesiastes 12:7 תָּשׁ֔וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.