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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Numbers 13:25 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
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Numbers 13:26 וַיָּשִׁ֨יבוּ vai.ya.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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Numbers 14:3 שׁ֥וּב shuv · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
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Numbers 14:4 וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה ve.na.Shu.vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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Numbers 14:36 וַיָּשֻׁ֗בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
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Numbers 14:43 שַׁבְתֶּם֙ shav.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you
For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.
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Numbers 16:50 וַיָּ֤שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
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Numbers 17:10 הָשֵׁ֞ב ha.Shev · A command to you: causing it
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that thou mayest make an end of their murmurings against me, that they die not.
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Numbers 18:9 יָשִׁ֣יבוּ ya.Shi.vu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
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Numbers 22:8 וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֤י va.ha.shi.vo.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me
And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Jehovah shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
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Numbers 22:34 אָשׁ֥וּבָה 'a.Shu.vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
And Balaam said unto the angel of Jehovah, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
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Numbers 23:5 שׁ֥וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action
And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
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Numbers 23:6 וַיָּ֣שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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Numbers 23:16 שׁ֥וּב shuv · A command to you: simple action
And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
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Numbers 23:20 אֲשִׁיבֶֽנָּה׃ 'a.shi.Ve.nah · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
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Numbers 24:25 וַיָּ֣שָׁב vai.Ya.shov · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
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Numbers 25:4 וְיָשֹׁ֛ב ve.ya.Sho · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.
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Numbers 25:11 הֵשִׁ֤יב he.Shiv · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
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Numbers 32:15 תְשׁוּבֻן֙ te.shu.Vun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.
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Numbers 32:18 נָשׁ֖וּב na.Shuv · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us
We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.