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:
Nehemiah 2:20: " Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we"
Nehemiah 4:4: "for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give"
Nehemiah 4:12: "From all places whence ye shall return unto"
Nehemiah 4:15: "it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to naught, that we returned all of us to"
Nehemiah 5:11: " Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth"
Nehemiah 5:12: "Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as"
Nehemiah 6:4: "times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner."
Nehemiah 7:6: "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one"
Nehemiah 8:17: "And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat"
Nehemiah 9:17: "and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon,"
Nehemiah 9:26: "thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations."
Nehemiah 9:28: "But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies,"
Nehemiah 9:28: "thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven;"
Nehemiah 9:29: "And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not"
Nehemiah 9:35: "thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works."
Nehemiah 13:9: "and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with"
Esther 2:14: "went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women,"
Esther 4:13: "Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself"
Esther 4:15: "Then Esther bade them return Mordecai"
Esther 6:12: "And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to"
Esther 7:8: "Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet"
Esther 8:5: "and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised"
Esther 8:8: "and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse."
Esther 9:25: "he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged"
Job 1:21: "came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD"
Job 6:29: " Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness"
Job 6:29: "let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness"
Job 7:7: "is wind: mine eye shall no more see good."
Job 7:10: " He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more."
Job 9:12: "Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What"
Job 9:13: "If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under"
Job 9:18: "He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness."
Job 10:9: "that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?"
Job 10:16: "For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvelous"
Job 10:21: "Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;"
Job 11:10: "and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder"
Job 13:22: "will answer: or let me speak, and answer"
Job 14:13: "that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember"
Job 15:13: "That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?"
Job 15:22: "He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of"
Job 16:22: "then I shall go the way whence I shall not return."
Job 17:10: "But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise"
Job 20:2: "Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste."
Job 20:10: "shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods."
Job 20:18: "That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice"
Job 22:23: "If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles."
Job 23:13: "But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth."
Job 30:23: "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living."
Job 31:14: "and when he visiteth, what shall I answer"
Job 32:14: "his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches."
