# H5472 סוּג

סוּג (çûwg), Strong’s H5472: properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize) KJV: backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).. Occurs…

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*çûwg* — properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)

KJV: backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [סוּג, seldom שׂוּג] vb. move away, backslide
- Qal backslide, prove recreant to י׳
- Niph.
- 1 refl. turn oneself away, turn back
- 2 be turned or driven back, be repulsed
- Hiph.
- 1 usu. of displacing, moving back a boundary mark
- 2 remove, carry away
- Hoph. and justice is driven back

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 42:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=17) — “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be…
- [Isaiah 50:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/50?v=5) — The Lord GOD has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
- [Jeremiah 38:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/38?v=22) — ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes…
- [Jeremiah 46:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/46?v=5) — Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste…
- [Zephaniah 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/1?v=6) — those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven’t sought the LORD nor inquired after him.
- [Psalms 35:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/35?v=4) — Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and…
- [Psalms 40:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/40?v=15) — Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and…
- [Psalms 44:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/44?v=19) — Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
- [Psalms 53:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/53?v=4) — Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
- [Psalms 70:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/70?v=3) — Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.