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. Isaiah 1:25 וְאָשִׁ֤יבָה 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 turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin;

  2. Isaiah 1:26 וְאָשִׁ֤יבָה 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 restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.

  3. Isaiah 1:27 וְשָׁבֶ֖יהָ ve.sha.Vei.ha · An -ing word: simple action

    Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

  4. Isaiah 5:25 שָׁ֣ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  5. Isaiah 6:10 וָשָׁ֖ב va.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.

  6. Isaiah 6:13 וְשָׁ֖בָה ve.Sha.vah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.

  7. Isaiah 9:12 שָׁ֣ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  8. Isaiah 9:13 שָׁ֖ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.

  9. Isaiah 9:17 שָׁ֣ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  10. Isaiah 9:21 שָׁ֣ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  11. Isaiah 10:4 שָׁ֣ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  12. Isaiah 10:21 יָשׁ֖וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

  13. Isaiah 10:22 יָשׁ֣וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

  14. Isaiah 12:1 יָשֹׁ֥ב ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me.

  15. Isaiah 14:27 יְשִׁיבֶֽנָּה׃ פ ye.shi.Ve.nah · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

  16. Isaiah 19:22 וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.

  17. Isaiah 21:12 שֻׁ֥בוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

  18. Isaiah 23:17 וְשָׁבָ֖ה ve.sha.Vah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

  19. Isaiah 28:6 מְשִׁיבֵ֥י me.shi.Vei · An -ing word: causing it

    and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.

  20. Isaiah 29:17 וְשָׁ֥ב ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

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