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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:

Leviticus 22:13: "or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth,"
Leviticus 25:10: "thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return"
Leviticus 25:10: "every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family."
Leviticus 25:13: "In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession."
Leviticus 25:27: "the years of the sale thereof, and restore the surplus unto the man to whom"
Leviticus 25:27: "unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession."
Leviticus 25:28: "But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain"
Leviticus 25:28: "it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession."
Leviticus 25:41: "from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto"
Leviticus 25:41: "his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return."
Leviticus 25:51: "many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought"
Leviticus 25:52: "then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption."
Leviticus 26:26: "your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not"
Leviticus 27:24: "In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought,"
Numbers 4:11: "it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves"
Numbers 5:7: "their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add"
Numbers 5:8: "the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed"
Numbers 5:8: "the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside"
Numbers 8:25: "And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service"
Numbers 10:36: "And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel."
Numbers 11:4: "and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh"
Numbers 13:25: " And they returned from searching of the land after forty days."
Numbers 13:26: "the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed"
Numbers 14:3: "a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?"
Numbers 14:4: "another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
Numbers 14:36: "to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur"
Numbers 14:43: "you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from"
Numbers 16:50: "And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:"
Numbers 17:10: "said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before"
Numbers 18:9: "of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy"
Numbers 22:8: "them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak"
Numbers 22:34: "me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again."
Numbers 23:5: "in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak."
Numbers 23:6: " And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all"
Numbers 23:16: "and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say"
Numbers 23:20: "commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse"
Numbers 24:25: "And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went"
Numbers 25:4: "the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel."
Numbers 25:11: "the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from"
Numbers 32:15: "For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness;"
Numbers 32:18: "We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited"
Numbers 32:22: "before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD,"
Numbers 33:7: "And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before"
Numbers 35:25: "out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge,"
Numbers 35:28: "of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession."
Numbers 35:32: "to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death"
Deuteronomy 1:22: "us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way"
Deuteronomy 1:25: "of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good"
Deuteronomy 1:45: " And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice,"
Deuteronomy 3:20: "your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which"









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