Word study · Hebrew
שׁוּב
shuvH7725to return: return
Used 1,056 times in the tagged text.
H7725G · שׁוּב · to return: return
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : return
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725H · שׁוּב · to return: rescue
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : rescue/restore
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725I · שׁוּב · to return: turn back
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : turn_back/backslide
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725J · שׁוּב · to return: again
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : again/constantly
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725K · שׁוּב · to return: pay
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : pay/repay/revenge/reward
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725L · שׁוּב · to return: refuse
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : refuse/turn(face)
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725M · שׁוּב · to return: reply
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : reply
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725N · שׁוּב · to return: recall
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : recall/turn(heart)
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
H7725O · שׁוּב · to return: repent
What it means
- to return, turn back
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : repent
- 1) to return, turn back
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to turn back, return
- 1a1a) to turn back
- 1a1b) to return, come or go back
- 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
- 1a1d) of dying
- 1a1e) of human relations (fig)
- 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
- 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
- 1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
- 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
- 1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
- 1a1g) of inanimate things
- 1a1h) in repetition
- 1b) (Polel)
- 1b1) to bring back
- 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
- 1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
- 1b4) to show turning, apostatise
- 1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
- 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
- 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
- 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
- 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
- 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
- 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
- 1d7) to turn against
- 1d8) to bring back to mind
- 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
- 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
- 1f) (Pulal) brought back
Same idea, other words · Repentance and returning
The Old Testament says 'return to the Lord'; the New Testament adds a change of mind. The two pictures belong together.
Where it appears
- Genesis68
- Exodus28
- Leviticus18
- Numbers31
- Deuteronomy35
- Joshua36
- Judges29
- Ruth15
- 1 Samuel45
- 2 Samuel52
- 1 Kings62
- 2 Kings55
- 1 Chronicles5
- 2 Chronicles62
- Ezra4
- Nehemiah20
- Esther8
- Job39
- Psalms71
- Proverbs23
- Ecclesiastes10
- Song of Songs4
- Isaiah51
- Jeremiah111
- Lamentations14
- Ezekiel63
- Daniel15
- Hosea22
- Joel6
- Amos15
- Obadiah1
- Jonah5
- Micah4
- Nahum1
- Habakkuk1
- Zephaniah2
- Zechariah18
- Malachi7
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then turned eastward toward Beth-dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el, and went north to Beth-emek and Neiel, passing Cabul on the left.
The border then turned back toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah, and came out at the Sea in the region of Achzib,
The border then turned back toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah, and came out at the Sea in the region of Achzib,
Then the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor and ran from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun on the south side, Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan on the east.
He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”
saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”
So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.
“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?
And now, would you turn away from the LORD? If you rebel today against the LORD, tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
If we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from Him and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the LORD Himself hold us accountable.
Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God, which stands before His tabernacle.”
Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.
Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,
Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my offering and set it before You.” And the LORD said, “I will stay until you return.”
Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.
Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.
When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”
So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!”
After this, Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle along the Ascent of Heres.
And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.
They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”
The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”
then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”
After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
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