שׁוּב

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)

Every occurrence

1. Ruth 1:6 וַתָּ֖שָׁב va.Ta.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Jehovah had visited his people in giving them bread.

2. Ruth 1:7 לָשׁ֖וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

   And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.

3. Ruth 1:8 שֹּׁ֔בְנָה Shoe.nah · A command to all of you: simple action

   And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Jehovah deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

4. Ruth 1:10 נָשׁ֖וּב na.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

   And they said unto her, Nay, but we will return with thee unto thy people.

5. Ruth 1:11 שֹׁ֣בְנָה Shoe.nah · A command to all of you: simple action

   And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

6. Ruth 1:12 שֹׁ֤בְנָה Shoe.nah · A command to all of you: simple action

   Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband to-night, and should also bear sons;

7. Ruth 1:15 שָׁ֣בָה Sha.vah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god: return thou after thy sister-in-law.

8. Ruth 1:15 שׁ֖וּבִי Shu.vi · A command to you: simple action

   And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god: return thou after thy sister-in-law.

9. Ruth 1:16 לָשׁ֣וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

   And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;

10. Ruth 1:21 הֱשִׁיבַ֣נִי he.shi.Va.ni · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

11. Ruth 1:22 וַתָּ֣שָׁב va.Ta.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

12. Ruth 1:22 הַשָּׁ֖בָה ha.Sha.vah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

13. Ruth 2:6 הַשָּׁ֥בָה ha.Sha.vah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

14. Ruth 4:3 הַשָּׁ֖בָה ha.Sha.vah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he said unto the near kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:

15. Ruth 4:15 לְמֵשִׁ֣יב le.me.Shiv · An -ing word: causing it

    And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

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