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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:

Psalms 78:34: "When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God."
Psalms 78:38: "and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all"
Psalms 78:39: "were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again."
Psalms 78:41: " Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel."
Psalms 79:12: " And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached"
Psalms 80:3: " Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved."
Psalms 80:7: " Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved."
Psalms 80:14: " Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold,"
Psalms 80:19: " Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved."
Psalms 81:14: "I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries."
Psalms 85:1: "LORD, thou hast been favorable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob."
Psalms 85:3: "Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger."
Psalms 85:4: " Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease."
Psalms 85:6: "Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice"
Psalms 85:8: "and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly."
Psalms 89:43: "Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle."
Psalms 90:3: " Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men."
Psalms 90:3: "to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men."
Psalms 90:13: " Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants."
Psalms 94:2: "Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud."
Psalms 94:15: "But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart"
Psalms 94:23: " And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God"
Psalms 104:9: "a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth."
Psalms 104:29: "thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust."
Psalms 106:23: "stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy"
Psalms 116:7: " Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with"
Psalms 116:12: "What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward"
Psalms 119:59: "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies."
Psalms 119:79: "Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies."
Psalms 126:1: "A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were"
Psalms 126:4: " Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south."
Psalms 132:10: "For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed."
Psalms 132:11: "in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body"
Psalms 146:4: "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."
Proverbs 1:23: " Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words"
Proverbs 2:19: "None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life."
Proverbs 3:28: "not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it by"
Proverbs 12:14: "of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered"
Proverbs 15:1: "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."
Proverbs 17:13: " Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house."
Proverbs 18:13: " He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame"
Proverbs 19:24: "in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again."
Proverbs 20:26: "king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over"
Proverbs 22:21: "the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send"
Proverbs 24:12: "thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?"
Proverbs 24:18: "the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from"
Proverbs 24:26: "Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer."
Proverbs 24:29: "so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work."
Proverbs 25:10: "he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away."
Proverbs 25:13: "so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters."









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