{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7725",
  "lemma": "שׁוּב",
  "transliteration": "shûwb",
  "definition": "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…",
  "occurrences": 1056,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 3:19",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 8:3",
      "text": "The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 8:7",
      "text": "and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 8:9",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 8:12",
      "text": "He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:7",
      "text": "They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:16",
      "text": "He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:17",
      "text": "The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 15:16",
      "text": "In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 16:9",
      "text": "The LORD’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=9"
    }
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