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שׁוּב

shuvto return: returnHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb1,057 occurrences38 books950 verses

Definition

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
Traditional renderings: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × 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, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שׁוּב:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,057 total
  1. 2 Kings 14:25הֵשִׁיב֙ · restored
    This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
  2. 2 Kings 14:28הֵשִׁ֜יב · and recovered
    As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, along with all his accomplishments and might, and how he waged war and recovered both Damascus and Hamath for Israel from Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  3. 2 Kings 15:20וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ · withdrew
    Menahem exacted this money from each of the wealthy men of Israel—fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.
  4. 2 Kings 16:6הֵ֠שִׁיב · recovered
    At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
  5. 2 Kings 17:3וַיָּ֥שֶׁב · and paid
    Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
  6. 2 Kings 17:13שֻׁ֝֠בוּ · Turn
    Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
  7. 2 Kings 18:14שׁ֣וּב · withdraw
    So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  8. 2 Kings 18:24תָּשִׁ֗יב · can you repel
    For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
  9. 2 Kings 19:7וְשָׁ֣ב · and return
    Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
  10. 2 Kings 19:8וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ · he withdrew
    When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
  11. 2 Kings 19:9וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ · So Sennacherib again
    Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
  12. 2 Kings 19:28וַהֲשִׁ֣בֹתִ֔יךָ · I will send you back
    Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  13. 2 Kings 19:33יָשׁ֑וּב · He will go back
    He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
  14. 2 Kings 19:36וַיָּ֖שָׁב · He returned
    So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
  15. 2 Kings 20:5שׁ֣וּב · Go back
    “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  16. 2 Kings 20:9יָשׁ֖וּב · back
    And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
  17. 2 Kings 20:10יָשׁ֥וּב · to go
    “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
  18. 2 Kings 20:11וַיָּ֣שֶׁב · and He brought
    So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.
  19. 2 Kings 21:3וַיָּ֗שָׁב · For he rebuilt
    For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
  20. 2 Kings 22:9וַיָּ֥שֶׁב · and reported
    And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
  21. 2 Kings 22:20וַיָּשִׁ֥יבוּ · So they brought
    ‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
  22. 2 Kings 23:20וַיָּ֖שָׁב · Then he returned
    On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
  23. 2 Kings 23:25שָׁ֤ב · turned
    Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.
  24. 2 Kings 23:26שָׁ֣ב · turn away
    Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.
  25. 2 Kings 24:1וַיָּ֖שָׁב · until he turned
    During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
  26. 1 Chronicles 19:5וְשַׁבְתֶּֽם׃ · and [then] return
    When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
  27. 1 Chronicles 20:3וַיָּ֧שָׁב · returned
    David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
  28. 1 Chronicles 21:12אָשִׁ֥יב · I should reply
    …between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
  29. 1 Chronicles 21:20וַיָּ֣שָׁב · turned
    Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
  30. 1 Chronicles 21:27וַיָּ֥שֶׁב · back
    Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.
  31. 2 Chronicles 6:23לְהָשִׁ֣יב · condemning
    …then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
  32. 2 Chronicles 6:24וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ · and they return
    When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,
  33. 2 Chronicles 6:25וַהֲשֵׁיבוֹתָם֙ · May You restore them
    …then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.
  34. 2 Chronicles 6:26יְשׁוּב֖וּן · and they turn
    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
  35. 2 Chronicles 6:37וְהֵשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ · and when they come; וְשָׁ֣בוּ׀ · and they repent
    …and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
  36. 2 Chronicles 6:38וְשָׁ֣בוּ · and when they return
    …and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
  37. 2 Chronicles 6:42תָּשֵׁ֖ב · reject
    O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”
  38. 2 Chronicles 7:14וְיָשֻׁ֖בוּ · and turn
    …and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
  39. 2 Chronicles 7:19תְּשׁוּב֣וּן · turn away
    But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  40. 2 Chronicles 10:2וַיָּ֥שָׁב · returned
    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
  41. 2 Chronicles 10:5וְשׁ֣וּבוּ · Come back
    Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
  42. 2 Chronicles 10:6לְהָשִׁ֥יב · to respond
    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
  43. 2 Chronicles 10:9וְנָשִׁ֥יב · that we send back
    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
  44. 2 Chronicles 10:12שׁ֥וּבוּ · Come back
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
  45. 2 Chronicles 10:16וַיָּשִׁ֣יבוּ · they answered
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
  46. 2 Chronicles 11:1לְהָשִׁ֥יב · and restore
    When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
  47. 2 Chronicles 11:4שׁ֚וּבוּ · of you must return; וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ · and turned back
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.
  48. 2 Chronicles 12:11וֶהֱשִׁב֖וּם · and [later] they would return them
    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.