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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Malachi 1:4 וְנָשׁוּב֙ ve.na.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us
Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.
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Malachi 2:6 הֵשִׁ֥יב he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
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Malachi 3:7 שׁ֤וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action
From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
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Malachi 3:7 וְאָשׁ֣וּבָה ve.'a.Shu.vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
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Malachi 3:7 נָשֽׁוּב׃ na.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us
From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
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Malachi 3:18 וְשַׁבְתֶּם֙ ve.shav.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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Malachi 4:6 וְהֵשִׁ֤יב ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.