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. Jeremiah 2:24 יְשִׁיבֶ֑נָּה ye.shi.Ve.nah · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  2. Jeremiah 2:35 שָׁ֥ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

  3. Jeremiah 3:1 הֲיָשׁ֤וּב ha.ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

  4. Jeremiah 3:1 וְשׁ֥וֹב ve.Shov · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

  5. Jeremiah 3:7 תָּשׁ֖וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

  6. Jeremiah 3:7 שָׁ֑בָה Sha.vah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

  7. Jeremiah 3:10 שָׁ֨בָה Sha.vah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.

  8. Jeremiah 3:12 שׁ֣וּבָה Shu.vah · A command to you: simple action

    Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep anger for ever.

  9. Jeremiah 3:14 שׁ֣וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

  10. Jeremiah 3:19 תָשֽׁוּבִי׃ ta.shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

  11. Jeremiah 3:22 שׁ֚וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.

  12. Jeremiah 4:1 תָּשׁ֨וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;

  13. Jeremiah 4:1 תָּשׁ֑וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;

  14. Jeremiah 4:8 שָׁ֛ב shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

  15. Jeremiah 4:28 אָשׁ֥וּב 'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

  16. Jeremiah 5:3 לָשֽׁוּב׃ la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  17. Jeremiah 6:9 הָשֵׁב֙ ha.Shev · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.

  18. Jeremiah 8:4 יָשׁ֖וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

  19. Jeremiah 8:4 יָשֽׁוּב׃ ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

  20. Jeremiah 8:5 שׁוֹבְבָ֜ה sho.Vah · An -ing word: simple action

    Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

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