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 30:24 יָשׁ֗וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it.

  2. Jeremiah 31:8 יָשׁ֥וּבוּ ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall they return hither.

  3. Jeremiah 31:16 וְשָׁ֖בוּ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

  4. Jeremiah 31:17 וְשָׁ֥בוּ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and thy children shall come again to their own border.

  5. Jeremiah 31:18 הֲשִׁיבֵ֣נִי ha.shi.Ve.ni · A command to you: causing it

    I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

  6. Jeremiah 31:18 וְאָשׁ֔וּבָה ve.'a.Shu.vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

  7. Jeremiah 31:19 שׁוּבִי֙ shu.Vi · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

  8. Jeremiah 31:21 שׁ֚וּבִי Shu.vi · A command to you: simple action

    Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

  9. Jeremiah 31:21 שֻׁ֖בִי Shu.vi · A command to you: simple action

    Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

  10. Jeremiah 31:23 בְּשׁוּבִ֖י be.shu.Vi · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.

  11. Jeremiah 32:37 וַהֲשִֽׁבֹתִים֙ va.ha.shi.vo.Tim · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

  12. Jeremiah 32:40 אָשׁוּב֙ 'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

  13. Jeremiah 32:44 אָשִׁ֥יב 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith Jehovah.

  14. Jeremiah 33:7 וַהֲשִֽׁבֹתִי֙ va.ha.shi.vo.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

  15. Jeremiah 33:11 אָשִׁ֧יב 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that say, Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his lovingkindness endureth for ever; and of them that bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, saith Jehovah.

  16. Jeremiah 33:26 אָשִׁ֥יב 'a.shuv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

  17. Jeremiah 34:11 וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

  18. Jeremiah 34:11 וַיָּשִׁ֗בוּ vai.ya.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

  19. Jeremiah 34:15 וַתָּשֻׁ֨בוּ va.ta.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by all of you

    And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

  20. Jeremiah 34:16 וַתָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ va.ta.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by all of you

    but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

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