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 31:6 שׁ֗וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

  2. Isaiah 35:10 יְשֻׁב֗וּן ye.shu.Vun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

  3. Isaiah 36:9 תָּשִׁ֗יב ta.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

  4. Isaiah 37:7 וְשָׁ֣ב ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

  5. Isaiah 37:8 וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

  6. Isaiah 37:29 וַהֲשִׁ֣יבֹתִ֔יךָ va.ha.Shi.vo.Ti.kha · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

  7. Isaiah 37:34 יָשׁ֑וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.

  8. Isaiah 37:37 וַיָּ֖שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

  9. Isaiah 38:8 מֵשִׁ֣יב me.Shiv · An -ing word: causing it

    behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.

  10. Isaiah 38:8 וַתָּ֤שָׁב va.Ta.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.

  11. Isaiah 41:28 וְיָשִׁ֥יבוּ ve.ya.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

  12. Isaiah 42:22 הָשַֽׁב׃ ha.Shav · A command to you: causing it

    But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

  13. Isaiah 43:13 יְשִׁיבֶֽנָּה׃ ס ye.shi.Ve.nah · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?

  14. Isaiah 44:19 יָשִׁ֣יב ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

  15. Isaiah 44:22 שׁוּבָ֥ה shu.Vah · A command to you: simple action

    I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

  16. Isaiah 44:25 מֵשִׁ֧יב me.Shiv · An -ing word: causing it

    that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

  17. Isaiah 45:23 יָשׁ֑וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

  18. Isaiah 46:8 הָשִׁ֥יבוּ ha.Shi.vu · A command to all of you: causing it

    Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.

  19. Isaiah 47:10 שׁוֹבְבָ֑תֶךְ sho.Va.tekh · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

  20. Isaiah 49:5 לְשׁוֹבֵ֤ב le.sho.Vev · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    And now saith Jehovah that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered unto him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Jehovah, and my God is become my strength);

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