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. Ezekiel 33:11 שׁ֣וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

  2. Ezekiel 33:11 שׁ֜וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

  3. Ezekiel 33:12 שׁוּב֣וֹ shu.Vo · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

  4. Ezekiel 33:14 וְשָׁב֙ ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

  5. Ezekiel 33:15 יָשִׁ֤יב ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  6. Ezekiel 33:18 בְּשׁוּב־ be.shuv- · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

  7. Ezekiel 33:19 וּבְשׁ֤וּב u.ve.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

  8. Ezekiel 34:4 הֲשֵׁבֹתֶ֔ם ha.she.vo.Tem · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

  9. Ezekiel 34:16 אָשִׁ֔יב 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

  10. Ezekiel 35:7 וָשָֽׁב׃ va.Shav · An -ing word: simple action

    Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

  11. Ezekiel 35:9 תָשֹׁ֑בְנָה tei.shav.nah · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

  12. Ezekiel 38:4 וְשׁ֣וֹבַבְתִּ֔יךָ ve.Shoav.Ti.kha · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by me

    and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

  13. Ezekiel 38:8 מְשׁוֹבֶ֣בֶת me.sho.Ve.vet · An -ing word: strong action

    After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.

  14. Ezekiel 38:12 לְהָשִׁ֨יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth.

  15. Ezekiel 39:2 וְשֹׁבַבְתִּ֙יךָ֙ ve.shoav.Ti.kha · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by me

    and I will turn thee about, and will lead thee on, and will cause thee to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel;

  16. Ezekiel 39:25 אָשִׁיב֙ 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.

  17. Ezekiel 39:27 בְּשׁוֹבְבִ֤י be.sho.Vi · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

  18. Ezekiel 44:1 וַיָּ֣שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

  19. Ezekiel 46:9 יָשׁ֗וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    But when the people of the land shall come before Jehovah in the appointed feasts, he that entereth by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth straight before him.

  20. Ezekiel 46:17 וְשָׁבַ֖ת ve.sha.Vat · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

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