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 Kings 13:29: "and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to"
1 Kings 13:33: "this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way,"
1 Kings 13:33: "not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest"
1 Kings 14:28: "into the house of the LORD, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber."
1 Kings 17:21: "let this child's soul come into him again."
1 Kings 17:22: "of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived."
1 Kings 18:43: "and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times."
1 Kings 19:6: "And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again."
1 Kings 19:7: "And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat;"
1 Kings 19:15: "said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest,"
1 Kings 19:20: "and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done"
1 Kings 19:21: " And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew"
1 Kings 20:5: "And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although"
1 Kings 20:9: "do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word"
1 Kings 20:34: "took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus,"
1 Kings 22:17: "These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace."
1 Kings 22:26: "Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city,"
1 Kings 22:28: "And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not"
1 Kings 22:28: "And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not"
1 Kings 22:33: "was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing"
2 Kings 1:5: "And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?"
2 Kings 1:5: "unto them, Why are ye now turned back?"
2 Kings 1:6: "us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent"
2 Kings 1:11: " Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered"
2 Kings 1:13: "And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain"
2 Kings 2:13: "that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank"
2 Kings 2:18: " And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not"
2 Kings 2:25: "to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria."
2 Kings 3:4: "of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel a hundred thousand"
2 Kings 3:27: "Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land."
2 Kings 4:22: "to the man of God, and come again."
2 Kings 4:31: "voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child"
2 Kings 4:35: " Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up,"
2 Kings 4:38: "And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting"
2 Kings 5:10: "seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean."
2 Kings 5:14: "of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."
2 Kings 5:15: " And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came,"
2 Kings 7:8: "and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another"
2 Kings 7:15: "had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king."
2 Kings 8:3: "years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines:"
2 Kings 8:6: "unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all"
2 Kings 8:29: "And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which"
2 Kings 9:15: "But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which"
2 Kings 9:18: "saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again."
2 Kings 9:20: "He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu"
2 Kings 9:36: " Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke"
2 Kings 13:25: "the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son"
2 Kings 13:25: "by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities"
2 Kings 14:14: "of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria."
2 Kings 14:22: "built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept"
