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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:

Deuteronomy 4:30: "are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient"
Deuteronomy 4:39: "Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he"
Deuteronomy 5:30: "Go say to them, Get you into your tents"
Deuteronomy 13:17: "the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger,"
Deuteronomy 17:16: "to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses:"
Deuteronomy 17:16: "forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way."
Deuteronomy 20:5: "and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle,"
Deuteronomy 20:6: "and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle,"
Deuteronomy 20:7: "and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle,"
Deuteronomy 20:8: "is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest"
Deuteronomy 22:1: "go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother."
Deuteronomy 22:1: "go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother."
Deuteronomy 22:2: "with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore"
Deuteronomy 23:13: "when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh"
Deuteronomy 23:14: "no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from"
Deuteronomy 24:4: "may not take her again to be his wife, after that"
Deuteronomy 24:13: " In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment,"
Deuteronomy 24:13: " In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment,"
Deuteronomy 24:19: "a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless,"
Deuteronomy 28:31: "shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies,"
Deuteronomy 28:60: " Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of;"
Deuteronomy 28:68: "And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto thee, Thou shalt see"
Deuteronomy 30:1: "which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,"
Deuteronomy 30:2: " And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that"
Deuteronomy 30:3: "That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather"
Deuteronomy 30:3: "thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations,"
Deuteronomy 30:8: "And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all"
Deuteronomy 30:9: "for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as"
Deuteronomy 30:10: "book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all"
Deuteronomy 32:41: "and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate"
Deuteronomy 32:43: "he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land,"
Joshua 1:15: "which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy"
Joshua 2:16: "days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way."
Joshua 2:22: "days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way,"
Joshua 2:23: "So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came"
Joshua 4:18: "unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over"
Joshua 5:2: "thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second"
Joshua 6:14: "the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did"
Joshua 7:3: " And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people"
Joshua 7:26: "this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore"
Joshua 8:21: "the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai."
Joshua 8:24: "they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword."
Joshua 8:26: "For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until"
Joshua 10:15: "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal."
Joshua 10:21: "And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah"
Joshua 10:38: "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against"
Joshua 10:43: "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal."
Joshua 11:10: "And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote"
Joshua 14:7: "me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in"
Joshua 18:8: "and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots"









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