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. Psalms 78:39 יָשֽׁוּב׃ ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

  2. Psalms 78:41 וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

  3. Psalms 79:12 וְהָ֘שֵׁ֤ב ve.Ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it

    And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

  4. Psalms 80:3 הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ ha.shi.Ve.nu · A command to you: causing it

    Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

  5. Psalms 80:7 הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ ha.shi.Ve.nu · A command to you: causing it

    Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

  6. Psalms 80:14 שֽׁ֫וּב־ Shuv- · A command to you: simple action

    Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

  7. Psalms 80:19 הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ ha.shi.Ve.nu · A command to you: causing it

    Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

  8. Psalms 81:14 אָשִׁ֥יב 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

  9. Psalms 85:1 שַׁ֝֗בְתָּ Shav.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    For the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

  10. Psalms 85:3 הֱ֝שִׁיב֗וֹתָ he.shi.Vo.ta · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

  11. Psalms 85:4 שׁ֭וּבֵנוּ Shu.ve.nu · A command to you: simple action

    Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

  12. Psalms 85:6 תָּשׁ֣וּב ta.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Wilt thou not quicken us again, That thy people may rejoice in thee?

  13. Psalms 85:8 יָשׁ֥וּבוּ ya.Shu.vu · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly.

  14. Psalms 89:43 תָּ֭שִׁיב Ta.shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

  15. Psalms 90:3 תָּשֵׁ֣ב ta.Shev · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

  16. Psalms 90:3 שׁ֣וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

  17. Psalms 90:13 שׁוּבָ֣ה shu.Vah · A command to you: simple action

    Return, O Jehovah; How long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

  18. Psalms 94:2 הָשֵׁ֥ב ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it

    Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud their desert.

  19. Psalms 94:15 יָשׁ֣וּב ya.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

  20. Psalms 94:23 וַיָּ֤שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.

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