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:
Ruth 1:11: "And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet"
Ruth 1:12: " Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband."
Ruth 1:15: "And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods:"
Ruth 1:15: "her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law."
Ruth 1:16: "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither"
Ruth 1:21: "went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi,"
Ruth 1:22: "So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, which returned out of the country"
Ruth 1:22: "the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they"
Ruth 2:6: "It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country"
Ruth 4:3: "And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth"
Ruth 4:15: "And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter-in-law,"
1 Samuel 1:19: "And they rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house"
1 Samuel 3:5: "I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down."
1 Samuel 3:6: "not, my son; lie down again."
1 Samuel 5:3: "of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place"
1 Samuel 5:11: "the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people:"
1 Samuel 6:3: "it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed,"
1 Samuel 6:3: "it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed,"
1 Samuel 6:4: "they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods,"
1 Samuel 6:7: "the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from"
1 Samuel 6:8: "the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side"
1 Samuel 6:16: "lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day."
1 Samuel 6:17: "emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one,"
1 Samuel 6:21: "of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down,"
1 Samuel 7:3: "saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts,"
1 Samuel 7:14: "had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron"
1 Samuel 9:5: "that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for"
1 Samuel 12:3: "or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore"
1 Samuel 14:27: "that was in his hand, and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand"
1 Samuel 15:11: "Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed"
1 Samuel 15:25: "pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD."
1 Samuel 15:26: "unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected"
1 Samuel 15:30: "of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God."
1 Samuel 15:31: "So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD."
1 Samuel 17:15: "But David went and returned from Saul to feed"
1 Samuel 17:30: "him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former"
1 Samuel 17:53: "And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled"
1 Samuel 17:57: "And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took"
1 Samuel 18:2: "him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house."
1 Samuel 18:6: "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,"
1 Samuel 23:23: "of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty,"
1 Samuel 23:28: "Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against"
1 Samuel 24:1: "And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told"
1 Samuel 25:12: "young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those"
1 Samuel 25:21: "so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for"
1 Samuel 25:39: "and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal"
1 Samuel 26:21: "Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no"
1 Samuel 26:23: "The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD"
1 Samuel 26:25: "shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place."
1 Samuel 27:9: "and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish."
