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:
Joel 2:14: "Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering"
Joel 3:1: "and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,"
Joel 3:4: "ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head;"
Joel 3:7: "the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:"
Amos 1:3: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead"
Amos 1:6: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity,"
Amos 1:8: "from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against"
Amos 1:9: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity"
Amos 1:11: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword,"
Amos 1:13: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead,"
Amos 2:1: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king"
Amos 2:4: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law"
Amos 2:6: "and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver,"
Amos 4:6: "in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Amos 4:8: "but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Amos 4:9: "the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Amos 4:10: "of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Amos 4:11: "plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Amos 9:14: " And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities,"
Obadiah 1:15: "thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head."
Jonah 1:13: "Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for"
Jonah 3:8: "mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way,"
Jonah 3:9: "Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce"
Jonah 3:9: "if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish"
Jonah 3:10: "their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God"
Micah 1:7: "she gathered it of the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot."
Micah 2:8: "with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war."
Micah 5:3: "hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel."
Micah 7:19: " He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths"
Nahum 2:2: "For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel:"
Habakkuk 2:1: "what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved."
Zephaniah 2:7: "the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity."
Zephaniah 3:20: "among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith"
Zechariah 1:3: "saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts,"
Zechariah 1:3: "me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts."
Zechariah 1:4: "saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways,"
Zechariah 1:6: "did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts"
Zechariah 1:16: "thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built"
Zechariah 4:1: "And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,"
Zechariah 5:1: " Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll."
Zechariah 6:1: " And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out"
Zechariah 7:14: "was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant"
Zechariah 8:3: "Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst"
Zechariah 8:15: "So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem"
Zechariah 9:8: "about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor"
Zechariah 9:12: " Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will render"
Zechariah 9:12: "even today do I declare that I will render double"
Zechariah 10:6: "and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though"
Zechariah 10:9: "and they shall live with their children, and turn again."
Zechariah 10:10: " I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring"
