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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Genesis 44:8 הֱשִׁיבֹ֥נוּ he.shi.Vo.nu · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by us
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
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Genesis 44:13 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
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Genesis 44:25 שֻׁ֖בוּ Shu.vu · A command to all of you: simple action
And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
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Genesis 48:21 וְהֵשִׁ֣יב ve.he.Shiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
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Genesis 50:5 וְאָשֽׁוּבָה׃ ve.'a.Shu.vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
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Genesis 50:14 וַיָּ֨שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
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Genesis 50:15 וְהָשֵׁ֤ב ve.ha.Shev · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
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Genesis 50:15 יָשִׁיב֙ ya.Shiv · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
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Exodus 4:7 הָשֵׁ֤ב ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it
And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.)
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Exodus 4:7 וַיָּ֥שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.)
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Exodus 4:7 שָׁ֖בָה Sha.vah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.)
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Exodus 4:18 וַיָּ֣שָׁב׀ vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
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Exodus 4:18 וְאָשׁ֙וּבָה֙ ve.'a.Shu.vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
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Exodus 4:19 שֻׁ֣ב shuv · A command to you: simple action
And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.
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Exodus 4:20 וַיָּ֖שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
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Exodus 4:21 לָשׁ֣וּב la.Shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
And Jehovah said unto Moses, When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
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Exodus 5:22 וַיָּ֧שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
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Exodus 10:8 וַיּוּשַׁ֞ב vai.yu.Shav · An action: being caused, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Jehovah your God; but who are they that shall go?
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Exodus 13:17 וְשָׁ֥בוּ ve.Sha.vu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
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Exodus 14:2 וְיָשֻׁ֗בוּ ve.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.