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. Zechariah 1:3 שׁ֣וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  2. Zechariah 1:3 וְאָשׁ֣וּב ve.'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  3. Zechariah 1:4 שׁ֤וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah.

  4. Zechariah 1:6 וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

  5. Zechariah 1:16 שַׁ֤בְתִּי Shav.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.

  6. Zechariah 4:1 וַיָּ֕שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

  7. Zechariah 5:1 וָאָשׁ֕וּב va.'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.

  8. Zechariah 6:1 וָאָשֻׁ֗ב va.'a.Shuv · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

  9. Zechariah 7:14 וּמִשָּׁ֑ב u.mi.Shav · An -ing word: simple action

    but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  10. Zechariah 8:3 שַׁ֚בְתִּי Shav.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain.

  11. Zechariah 8:15 שַׁ֤בְתִּי Shav.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    so again have I thought in these days to do good unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

  12. Zechariah 9:8 וּמִשָּׁ֔ב u.mi.Shav · An -ing word: simple action

    And I will encamp about my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

  13. Zechariah 9:12 שׁ֚וּבוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

  14. Zechariah 9:12 אָשִׁ֥יב 'a.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

  15. Zechariah 10:6 וְהֽוֹשְׁבוֹתִים֙ ve.ho.she.vo.Tim · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will hear them.

  16. Zechariah 10:9 וָשָֽׁבוּ׃ va.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

  17. Zechariah 10:10 וַהֲשִֽׁיבוֹתִים֙ va.ha.shi.vo.Tim · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.

  18. Zechariah 13:7 וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֥י va.ha.shi.vo.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

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