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:
1 Samuel 29:4: "him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to"
1 Samuel 29:4: "of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place"
1 Samuel 29:7: "Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not"
1 Samuel 29:11: "rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines"
1 Samuel 30:12: "clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no"
1 Samuel 30:19: "any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all."
2 Samuel 1:1: "the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites,"
2 Samuel 1:22: "turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty."
2 Samuel 2:26: "shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?"
2 Samuel 2:30: "And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together,"
2 Samuel 3:11: "And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared"
2 Samuel 3:16: "Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned."
2 Samuel 3:16: "unto him, Go, return. And he returned."
2 Samuel 3:26: "he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well"
2 Samuel 3:27: "And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate"
2 Samuel 6:20: "Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul"
2 Samuel 8:3: "king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates."
2 Samuel 8:13: "And David got him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians"
2 Samuel 9:7: "I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all"
2 Samuel 10:5: "until your beards be grown, and then return."
2 Samuel 10:14: "Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children"
2 Samuel 11:4: "for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house."
2 Samuel 11:15: "the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten,"
2 Samuel 12:23: "wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go"
2 Samuel 12:23: "shall go to him, but he shall not return to"
2 Samuel 12:31: "of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem."
2 Samuel 14:13: "thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished."
2 Samuel 14:21: "this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom"
2 Samuel 15:8: "saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD."
2 Samuel 15:19: "thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king:"
2 Samuel 15:20: "whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren:"
2 Samuel 15:20: "whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy"
2 Samuel 15:25: "And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city:"
2 Samuel 15:25: "favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:"
2 Samuel 15:27: "the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons"
2 Samuel 15:29: "Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried"
2 Samuel 15:34: "But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant,"
2 Samuel 16:3: "Today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father."
2 Samuel 16:8: "The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose"
2 Samuel 16:12: "will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this"
2 Samuel 17:3: " And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest"
2 Samuel 17:3: "thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace."
2 Samuel 17:20: "And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem."
2 Samuel 18:16: "blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel:"
2 Samuel 19:10: "therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king"
2 Samuel 19:11: "Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house?"
2 Samuel 19:12: "wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?"
2 Samuel 19:14: "so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants."
2 Samuel 19:15: "So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal,"
2 Samuel 19:37: "Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father"
