Strong's #7725: shuwb (pronounced shoob)
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)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X 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, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shûb
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 (figuratively)
1a1f) of spiritual relations (figuratively)
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 (figuratively)
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 1058 times:
2 Kings 14:25: "He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath"
2 Kings 14:28: "how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah,"
2 Kings 15:20: "of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land."
2 Kings 16:6: "Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove"
2 Kings 17:3: "and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents."
2 Kings 17:13: "and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep"
2 Kings 18:14: "to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which"
2 Kings 18:24: "How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's"
2 Kings 19:7: "a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."
2 Kings 19:8: "So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against"
2 Kings 19:9: "against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,"
2 Kings 19:28: "in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."
2 Kings 19:33: "By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this"
2 Kings 19:36: "of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh."
2 Kings 20:5: " Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith"
2 Kings 20:9: "go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?"
2 Kings 20:10: "nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees."
2 Kings 20:11: "cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees"
2 Kings 21:3: "For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed;"
2 Kings 22:9: "came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said,"
2 Kings 22:20: "upon this place. And they brought the king word"
2 Kings 23:20: "men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem."
2 Kings 23:25: "king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart,"
2 Kings 23:26: "Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath,"
2 Kings 24:1: "his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled"
1 Chronicles 19:5: "until your beards be grown, and then return."
1 Chronicles 20:3: "And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem."
1 Chronicles 21:12: "Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent"
1 Chronicles 21:20: "And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with"
1 Chronicles 21:27: "And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath"
2 Chronicles 6:23: "and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head;"
2 Chronicles 6:24: "the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray"
2 Chronicles 6:25: "the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest"
2 Chronicles 6:26: "and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict"
2 Chronicles 6:37: " Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn"
2 Chronicles 6:37: "Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray"
2 Chronicles 6:38: " If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity,"
2 Chronicles 6:42: "O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies"
2 Chronicles 7:14: "shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;"
2 Chronicles 7:19: "But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set"
2 Chronicles 10:2: "of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt."
2 Chronicles 10:5: "And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people"
2 Chronicles 10:6: "saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?"
2 Chronicles 10:9: "them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people,"
2 Chronicles 10:12: "the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day."
2 Chronicles 10:16: "would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What"
2 Chronicles 11:1: "men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam."
2 Chronicles 11:4: "fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this"
2 Chronicles 11:4: "me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against"
2 Chronicles 12:11: "the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard"
