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)
Every occurrence
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Jeremiah 8:5 לָשֽׁוּב׃ la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: 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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Jeremiah 8:6 שָׁ֚ב Shav · An -ing word: simple action
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.
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Jeremiah 11:10 שָׁ֩בוּ֩ sha.vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
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Jeremiah 12:15 אָשׁ֖וּב 'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
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Jeremiah 12:15 וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֛ים va.ha.shi.vo.Tim · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me
And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
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Jeremiah 14:3 שָׁ֤בוּ Sha.vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them
And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.
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Jeremiah 15:7 שָֽׁבוּ׃ Sha.vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them
And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.
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Jeremiah 15:19 תָּשׁ֤וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.
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Jeremiah 15:19 וַאֲשִֽׁיבְךָ֙ va.'a.shi.ve.Kha · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.
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Jeremiah 15:19 יָשֻׁ֤בוּ ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.
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Jeremiah 15:19 תָשׁ֥וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.
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Jeremiah 16:15 וַהֲשִֽׁבֹתִים֙ va.ha.shi.vo.Tim · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me
but, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
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Jeremiah 18:4 וְשָׁ֗ב ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
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Jeremiah 18:8 וְשָׁב֙ ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
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Jeremiah 18:11 שׁ֣וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action
Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
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Jeremiah 18:20 לְהָשִׁ֥יב le.ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
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Jeremiah 22:10 יָשׁוּב֙ ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
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Jeremiah 22:11 יָשׁ֥וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
For thus saith Jehovah touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return thither any more.
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Jeremiah 22:27 לָשׁ֣וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return.
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Jeremiah 22:27 יָשֽׁוּבוּ׃ ס ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

