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:
Proverbs 26:11: "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly."
Proverbs 26:15: "his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth."
Proverbs 26:16: "is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason."
Proverbs 26:27: "shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon"
Proverbs 27:11: "be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth"
Proverbs 29:8: "men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath."
Proverbs 30:30: "A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;"
Ecclesiastes 1:6: "it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits."
Ecclesiastes 1:7: "from whence the rivers come, thither they return again."
Ecclesiastes 3:20: "of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
Ecclesiastes 4:1: "So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done"
Ecclesiastes 4:7: "Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 5:15: "of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came,"
Ecclesiastes 9:11: " I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,"
Ecclesiastes 12:2: "or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:"
Ecclesiastes 12:7: "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return"
Ecclesiastes 12:7: "the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who"
Song of Solomon 6:13: " Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see"
Song of Solomon 6:13: "Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see"
Song of Solomon 6:13: "Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see"
Song of Solomon 6:13: "return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite?"
Isaiah 1:25: " And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all"
Isaiah 1:26: " And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called,"
Isaiah 1:27: "Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness."
Isaiah 5:25: "of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out"
Isaiah 6:10: "with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
Isaiah 6:13: "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose"
Isaiah 9:12: "mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out"
Isaiah 9:13: "For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD"
Isaiah 9:17: "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
Isaiah 9:21: "this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
Isaiah 10:4: "this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
Isaiah 10:21: "The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God."
Isaiah 10:22: "as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness."
Isaiah 12:1: "thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst"
Isaiah 14:27: "it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?"
Isaiah 19:22: "Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal"
Isaiah 21:12: "if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come."
Isaiah 23:17: "that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with"
Isaiah 28:6: "in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate."
Isaiah 29:17: "a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?"
Isaiah 31:6: " Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted."
Isaiah 35:10: "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy"
Isaiah 36:9: "How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's"
Isaiah 37:7: "a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword"
Isaiah 37:8: "So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against"
Isaiah 37:29: "in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."
Isaiah 37:34: "By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this"
Isaiah 37:37: "of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh."
Isaiah 38:8: "Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun"
