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. Esther 2:14 שָׁבָ֞ה sha.Vah · An -ing word: simple action

   In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.

2. Esther 4:13 לְהָשִׁ֣יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

   Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

3. Esther 4:15 לְהָשִׁ֥יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

   Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai,

4. Esther 6:12 וַיָּ֥שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

5. Esther 7:8 שָׁב֩ shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

6. Esther 8:5 לְהָשִׁ֣יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

   And she said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king's provinces:

7. Esther 8:8 לְהָשִֽׁיב׃ le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

   Write ye also to the Jews, as it pleaseth you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

8. Esther 9:25 יָשׁ֞וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.