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:
Job 33:5: "If thou canst answer me, set thywords in order before me, stand up."
Job 33:25: "His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:"
Job 33:26: "unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness."
Job 33:30: " To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living."
Job 33:32: "If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify"
Job 34:15: "shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust."
Job 35:4: "I will answer thee, and thy companions with"
Job 36:10: "to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity."
Job 39:4: "they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not"
Job 39:12: "Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?"
Job 39:22: "and is not frightened; neither turneth he back from the sword."
Job 40:4: "Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth."
Job 42:10: "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends:"
Psalms 6:4: " Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake."
Psalms 6:10: "be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly."
Psalms 7:7: "of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high."
Psalms 7:12: "If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready."
Psalms 7:16: "His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate."
Psalms 9:3: "When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence."
Psalms 9:17: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."
Psalms 14:7: "the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people,"
Psalms 18:20: "me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed"
Psalms 18:24: "Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight."
Psalms 18:37: "mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed."
Psalms 19:7: "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure,"
Psalms 22:27: "the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds"
Psalms 23:3: " He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake."
Psalms 28:4: "give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert."
Psalms 35:13: "my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom."
Psalms 35:17: "Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling"
Psalms 44:10: " Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil"
Psalms 51:12: " Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit."
Psalms 51:13: "transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto"
Psalms 53:6: "the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people,"
Psalms 54:5: " He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth."
Psalms 56:9: "I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for"
Psalms 59:6: " They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city."
Psalms 59:14: "And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city."
Psalms 60:1: "Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley"
Psalms 60:1: "O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn"
Psalms 68:22: "The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths"
Psalms 68:22: "said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:"
Psalms 69:4: "me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away."
Psalms 70:3: " Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha."
Psalms 71:20: "and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths"
Psalms 71:20: "shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth."
Psalms 72:10: "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba"
Psalms 73:10: "Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out"
Psalms 74:11: "Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom."
Psalms 74:21: "O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name."
