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. Leviticus 6:4 וְהֵשִׁ֨יב ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he hath gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

  2. Leviticus 13:16 יָשׁ֛וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, then he shall come unto the priest;

  3. Leviticus 14:39 וְשָׁ֥ב ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

  4. Leviticus 14:43 יָשׁ֤וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken out the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered;

  5. Leviticus 22:13 וְשָׁבָ֞ה ve.sha.Vah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

  6. Leviticus 25:10 וְשַׁבְתֶּ֗ם ve.shav.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

  7. Leviticus 25:10 תָּשֻֽׁבוּ׃ ta.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

  8. Leviticus 25:13 תָּשֻׁ֕בוּ ta.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

  9. Leviticus 25:27 וְהֵשִׁיב֙ ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

  10. Leviticus 25:27 וְשָׁ֖ב ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

  11. Leviticus 25:28 הָשִׁ֣יב ha.Shiv · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

  12. Leviticus 25:28 וְשָׁ֖ב ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

  13. Leviticus 25:41 וְשָׁב֙ ve.Shav · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

  14. Leviticus 25:41 יָשֽׁוּב׃ ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

  15. Leviticus 25:51 יָשִׁ֣יב ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

  16. Leviticus 25:52 יָשִׁ֖יב ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

  17. Leviticus 26:26 וְהֵשִׁ֥יבוּ ve.he.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by them

    When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

  18. Leviticus 27:24 יָשׁ֣וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.

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