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 Chronicles 12:12: "And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether:"
2 Chronicles 14:15: "sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 15:4: "But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found"
2 Chronicles 18:16: "These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace."
2 Chronicles 18:25: "Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city,"
2 Chronicles 18:26: "of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace."
2 Chronicles 18:27: "And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD"
2 Chronicles 18:27: "And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD"
2 Chronicles 18:32: "not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing"
2 Chronicles 19:1: "And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 19:4: "dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to"
2 Chronicles 19:4: "from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God"
2 Chronicles 19:8: "of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 20:27: " Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again"
2 Chronicles 20:27: "and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for"
2 Chronicles 22:6: " And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah,"
2 Chronicles 24:11: "the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did"
2 Chronicles 24:19: "Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear."
2 Chronicles 25:10: "again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger."
2 Chronicles 25:13: "of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle,"
2 Chronicles 25:24: "house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria."
2 Chronicles 26:2: "built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept"
2 Chronicles 27:5: "of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third."
2 Chronicles 28:11: "Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren:"
2 Chronicles 28:15: "the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria."
2 Chronicles 29:10: "of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from"
2 Chronicles 30:6: "of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God"
2 Chronicles 30:6: "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped"
2 Chronicles 30:8: "and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from"
2 Chronicles 30:9: "For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before"
2 Chronicles 30:9: "shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD"
2 Chronicles 30:9: "his face from you, if ye return unto"
2 Chronicles 31:1: "until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession,"
2 Chronicles 32:21: "in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into"
2 Chronicles 32:25: "But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up:"
2 Chronicles 33:3: "For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down,"
2 Chronicles 33:13: "him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew"
2 Chronicles 34:7: "throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:9: "the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:16: "the book to the king, and brought the king word back again,"
2 Chronicles 34:28: "place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word"
2 Chronicles 36:13: "and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God"
Ezra 2:1: "the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one"
Ezra 6:21: "And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto"
Ezra 9:14: " Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not"
Ezra 10:14: "of our God for this matter be turned from"
Nehemiah 1:9: " But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out"
Nehemiah 2:6: "shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send"
Nehemiah 2:15: "in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate"
Nehemiah 2:15: "the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned."
