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:
Ezekiel 38:12: "a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited,"
Ezekiel 39:2: " And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon"
Ezekiel 39:25: "the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy"
Ezekiel 39:27: " When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands,"
Ezekiel 44:1: " Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east;"
Ezekiel 46:9: "of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in,"
Ezekiel 46:17: "of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but"
Ezekiel 47:1: " Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under"
Ezekiel 47:6: "of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river."
Ezekiel 47:7: " Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees"
Daniel 9:13: "before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand"
Daniel 9:16: "I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy"
Daniel 9:25: "that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah"
Daniel 9:25: "weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."
Daniel 10:20: "I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia:"
Daniel 11:9: "of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land."
Daniel 11:10: "and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress."
Daniel 11:13: "For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former,"
Daniel 11:18: " After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease;"
Daniel 11:18: "offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn"
Daniel 11:19: " Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found."
Daniel 11:28: " Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant;"
Daniel 11:28: "the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land."
Daniel 11:29: "At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter."
Daniel 11:30: "of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant:"
Daniel 11:30: "the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy"
Hosea 2:7: "find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for"
Hosea 2:9: "Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover"
Hosea 3:5: "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God,"
Hosea 4:9: "like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings."
Hosea 5:4: "They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit"
Hosea 5:15: "I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek"
Hosea 6:1: "Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal"
Hosea 6:11: "O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people."
Hosea 7:10: "testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor"
Hosea 7:16: " They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall"
Hosea 8:13: "and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt."
Hosea 9:3: "in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria."
Hosea 11:5: "He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because"
Hosea 11:5: "shall be his king, because they refused to return."
Hosea 11:9: "the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I"
Hosea 12:2: "and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense"
Hosea 12:6: " Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on"
Hosea 12:14: "upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return"
Hosea 14:1: "O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity."
Hosea 14:2: "Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto"
Hosea 14:4: "them freely: for mine anger is turned away from"
Hosea 14:7: "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent"
Joel 2:12: "now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting,"
Joel 2:13: "your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for"
