Strongs's #5472: cuwg - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #5472: cuwg (pronounced soog)

a primitive root; properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize):--backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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sûg

1) to move, go, turn back, move away, backslide

1a) (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to
1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to turn oneself away, turn back
1b2) to be turned or driven back, be repulsed

Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Psalms 35:4: "and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt."
Psalms 40:14: "that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil."
Psalms 44:18: "Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;"
Psalms 53:3: "Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no,"
Psalms 70:2: "and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt."
Psalms 78:57: " But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow."
Psalms 80:18: "So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name."
Psalms 129:5: "Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion."
Proverbs 14:14: " The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from"
Isaiah 42:17: " They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images,"
Isaiah 50:5: "was not rebellious, neither turned away back."
Jeremiah 38:22: "thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back."
Jeremiah 46:5: "have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace,"
Zephaniah 1:6: " And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought"