H7725 שׁוּב
shûwb — to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);…
KJV: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down…
Occurs 1,056 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שׁוּב 1056 vb. turn back, return
- Qal 683;—turn back, return:
- 1 turn back
- 2 return, come or go back
- 3 esp. return unto
- a of dying
- b of revival from death
- 5 fig. of human relations:
- a return to leader, king
- b = change so as to appoach (in purpose, desire)
- c turn, i.e. resort to
- d return to a physical condition
- e abs. = change course of action
- 6 fig., specif. of spiritual relations:
- a turn back from God = apostatize
- b of י׳, turn away
- c turn back to God (= seek penitently)
- d abs. repent
- e turn back from evil
- f of י׳
- g of י׳, return (to shew favour)
- 7 of inanimate things (sts. personified, or treated as things of life):
- 8 denoting repetition, etc.
- 9 trans.
- Pō‛l.
- 1 bring back
- a fig. restore, refresh
- b restore, repair
- 3 lead away (enticingly)
- 4 shew turning = apostatize
- Hiph. 353 cause to return, bring back
- a bring back into bondage
- b put back
- c = draw back
- d = give back, restore
- e = relinguish
- f = give in payment, requital
- g bring one back (from dead)
- a bring back heart
- b = refresh
Where it occurs
- Genesis 3:19 — You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are…
- Genesis 8:3 — The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
- Genesis 8:7 — and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
- Genesis 8:9 — but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface…
- Genesis 8:12 — He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
- Genesis 14:7 — They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the…
- Genesis 14:16 — He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other…
- Genesis 14:17 — The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with…
- Genesis 15:16 — In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
- Genesis 16:9 — The LORD’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”