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. Nehemiah 1:9 וְשַׁבְתֶּ֣ם ve.shav.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

  2. Nehemiah 2:6 תָּשׁ֑וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And the king said unto me (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

  3. Nehemiah 2:15 וָאָשׁ֗וּב va.'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

  4. Nehemiah 2:15 וָאָשֽׁוּב׃ va.'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

  5. Nehemiah 2:20 וָאָשִׁ֨יב va.'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by me

    Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

  6. Nehemiah 4:4 וְהָשֵׁ֥ב ve.ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it

    Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  7. Nehemiah 4:12 תָּשׁ֥וּבוּ ta.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must return unto us.

  8. Nehemiah 4:15 וַנָּ֤שָׁב va.na.shuv · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by us

    And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

  9. Nehemiah 5:11 הָשִׁיבוּ֩ ha.shi.Vu · A command to all of you: causing it

    Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

  10. Nehemiah 5:12 נָשִׁ֗יב na.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

  11. Nehemiah 6:4 וָאָשִׁ֥יב va.'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by me

    And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

  12. Nehemiah 7:6 וַיָּשׁ֧וּבוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and that returned unto Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;

  13. Nehemiah 8:17 הַשָּׁבִ֨ים ha.sha.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    And all the assembly of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.

  14. Nehemiah 9:17 לָשׁ֥וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and forsookest them not.

  15. Nehemiah 9:26 לַהֲשִׁיבָ֣ם la.ha.shi.Vam · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.

  16. Nehemiah 9:28 יָשׁ֕וּבוּ ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee; therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies,

  17. Nehemiah 9:28 וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee; therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies,

  18. Nehemiah 9:29 לַהֲשִׁיבָ֣ם la.ha.shi.Vam · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  19. Nehemiah 9:35 שָׁ֔בוּ Sha.vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

  20. Nehemiah 13:9 וָאָשִׁ֣יבָה va.'a.Shi.vah · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by me

    Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal-offerings and the frankincense.

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