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:
Jeremiah 34:15: "And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming"
Jeremiah 34:16: " But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man"
Jeremiah 34:16: "ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants"
Jeremiah 34:22: "I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight"
Jeremiah 35:15: "rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way,"
Jeremiah 36:3: "purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way;"
Jeremiah 36:7: "their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way:"
Jeremiah 36:28: "Take thee again another roll, and write in it all"
Jeremiah 37:7: "army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land."
Jeremiah 37:8: "And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn"
Jeremiah 37:20: "be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest"
Jeremiah 38:26: "before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there."
Jeremiah 40:5: "Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam"
Jeremiah 40:5: "Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam"
Jeremiah 40:12: "Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither"
Jeremiah 41:14: "from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son"
Jeremiah 41:16: "the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son"
Jeremiah 41:16: "and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:"
Jeremiah 42:10: "If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down,"
Jeremiah 42:12: "And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land."
Jeremiah 43:5: "the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither"
Jeremiah 44:5: "inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no"
Jeremiah 44:14: "shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they"
Jeremiah 44:14: "to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there:"
Jeremiah 44:14: "to return to dwell there: for none shall return but"
Jeremiah 44:28: "number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land"
Jeremiah 46:16: "another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land"
Jeremiah 46:27: "and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease,"
Jeremiah 48:47: " Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus"
Jeremiah 49:6: "And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith"
Jeremiah 49:39: "But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith"
Jeremiah 50:6: "sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain"
Jeremiah 50:9: "she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain."
Jeremiah 50:19: " And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,"
Lamentations 1:8: "they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward."
Lamentations 1:11: "they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider;"
Lamentations 1:13: "and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate"
Lamentations 1:16: "with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children"
Lamentations 1:19: "while they sought their meat to relieve their souls."
Lamentations 2:3: "all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before"
Lamentations 2:8: "he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart"
Lamentations 2:14: "for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false"
Lamentations 3:3: "Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
Lamentations 3:21: "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
Lamentations 3:40: "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD."
Lamentations 3:64: " Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands."
Lamentations 5:21: " Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."
Lamentations 5:21: "Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."
Ezekiel 1:14: "And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning."
Ezekiel 3:19: "thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked"
