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:
2 Samuel 19:39: "kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place."
2 Samuel 19:43: "should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men"
2 Samuel 20:22: "the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king."
2 Samuel 22:21: "me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed"
2 Samuel 22:25: "Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight."
2 Samuel 22:38: "I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed"
2 Samuel 23:10: "victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil."
2 Samuel 24:13: "and see what answer I shall return to him that sent"
1 Kings 2:16: "one petition of thee, deny me not."
1 Kings 2:17: "the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me"
1 Kings 2:20: "small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king"
1 Kings 2:20: "And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay."
1 Kings 2:30: "I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying,"
1 Kings 2:32: "And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell"
1 Kings 2:33: "Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed forever: but upon David,"
1 Kings 2:41: "had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again."
1 Kings 2:44: "to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;"
1 Kings 8:33: "the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name,"
1 Kings 8:34: "the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest"
1 Kings 8:35: "and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest"
1 Kings 8:47: " Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent,"
1 Kings 8:47: "Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication"
1 Kings 8:48: " And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies,"
1 Kings 9:6: "But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not"
1 Kings 9:6: "But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not"
1 Kings 12:5: "yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed."
1 Kings 12:6: "How do ye advise that I may answer this people?"
1 Kings 12:9: "them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people,"
1 Kings 12:12: "the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day."
1 Kings 12:16: "not unto them, the people answered the king, saying,"
1 Kings 12:20: "heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation,"
1 Kings 12:21: "to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam"
1 Kings 12:24: "your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this"
1 Kings 12:24: "me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD."
1 Kings 12:26: "in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:"
1 Kings 12:27: "then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam"
1 Kings 12:27: "king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah."
1 Kings 13:4: "against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to"
1 Kings 13:6: "and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought"
1 Kings 13:6: "the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became"
1 Kings 13:9: "drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest."
1 Kings 13:10: "So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came"
1 Kings 13:16: "And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither"
1 Kings 13:17: "water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest."
1 Kings 13:18: "me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat"
1 Kings 13:19: " So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water."
1 Kings 13:20: "unto the prophet that brought him back:"
1 Kings 13:22: " But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say"
1 Kings 13:23: "for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back."
1 Kings 13:26: "And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It"
