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:
Joshua 19:12: " And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border"
Joshua 19:27: " And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jipthah-el"
Joshua 19:29: "And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast"
Joshua 19:29: "city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea"
Joshua 19:34: "And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok,"
Joshua 20:6: "days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto"
Joshua 22:8: "And he spoke unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents,"
Joshua 22:9: "and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children"
Joshua 22:16: "ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD,"
Joshua 22:18: "But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye"
Joshua 22:23: "That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer"
Joshua 22:29: "that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD,"
Joshua 22:32: "of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben,"
Joshua 22:32: "unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again."
Joshua 23:12: "Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations,"
Joshua 23:12: "Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations,"
Joshua 24:20: "and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that"
Judges 2:19: "And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following"
Judges 3:19: "But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said,"
Judges 5:29: "answered her, yea, she returned answer"
Judges 6:18: "thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again."
Judges 7:3: "Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead."
Judges 7:3: "and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty"
Judges 7:15: "of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshiped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said,"
Judges 8:9: "unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this"
Judges 8:13: "And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before"
Judges 8:33: "was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made"
Judges 9:56: "Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father,"
Judges 9:57: "of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse"
Judges 11:8: "unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with"
Judges 11:9: "of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon,"
Judges 11:13: "even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably."
Judges 11:31: "of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children"
Judges 11:35: "my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back."
Judges 11:39: "at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did"
Judges 14:8: "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass"
Judges 15:19: "therefrom; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called"
Judges 17:3: " And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said,"
Judges 17:3: "from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore"
Judges 17:4: " Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver,"
Judges 18:26: "were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house."
Judges 19:3: "after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple"
Judges 19:7: "urged him: therefore he lodged there again."
Judges 20:48: "And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge"
Judges 21:14: "And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive"
Judges 21:23: "whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired"
Ruth 1:6: "Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for"
Ruth 1:7: "daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah."
Ruth 1:8: "unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD"
Ruth 1:10: "And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people."
